Aziz Sonawalla
Software Engineer III (L4) at Google
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAziz Sonawalla is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building scalable cloud and AI infrastructure at Google, currently contributing to Gemini Enterprise. He has rotated across Google Cloud teams including Anthos, Cloud Retail, and Discovery Engine, bringing deep experience in distributed systems, observability, and production reliability. Aziz combines backend development and DevOps skills—evident from his contributions to Google’s widely used repo-automation-bots where he standardized logging and integrated Cloud Logging/Stackdriver and Octokit instrumentation. Based in Old Toronto, he holds a BSc with Distinction in Computer Science from UBC and has a background in cloud microservices from SAP, giving him strong product-to-infrastructure context. Known for treating “everything as a problem of scale,” he tends to focus on maintainability and actionable telemetry that reduce operational surprises. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who surfaces useful metadata in logs to make large systems easier to operate.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, International Baccalaureate, High School, International Baccalaureate at Pearson College UWCBachelor of Science (with Distinction), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (with Distinction), Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaIGCSE (Cambridge) Graduate with ICE Award, International General Certificate for Secondary Education, IGCSE (Cambridge) Graduate with ICE Award, International General Certificate for Secondary Education at Bombay International School
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
typescript10
automation10
typescript-types10
logging10
nodejs10
automations10
typescripts10
google-logging10
probot9
apidoc8
githubaction-workflow8
api8
github-ci8
html6
recursion6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/repo-automation-bots
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
A collection of bots, based on probot, for performing common maintenance tasks across the open-source repos managed by Google on GitHub.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 46 commits, 46 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aziz primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of logging utilities within the `googleapis/repo-automation-bots` repository. Their work focused on standardizing and improving logging practices, including implementing a standardized logger and integrating Cloud Logging/Stackdriver severity levels. Furthermore, the user enhanced functionality by adding GitHub event details and trigger information to log statements, demonstrating a focus on observability and maintainability. They also upgraded and enabled Octokit logging for several bots within the repository, indicating a role in the project's infrastructure and automation.
botbotsprobotmaintenance
azizsonawalla/Prolock
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Local, encrypted key-value store built with Prolog
Contributions:13 reviews, 42 PRs, 74 pushes in 16 days
encryptedkey-value-storekey-valueencryptionprolog
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