Azret Kenzhaliev
Site Reliability Engineer at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAzret Kenzhaliev is a Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building and hardening AI/ML infrastructure at Google DeepMind and Google UK, where he’s driven major reliability, performance, and cost-savings initiatives for systems that host Gemini models and crowd-sourcing pipelines. He has a proven track record reducing latency and toil—implementing autoscaling and Spanner improvements that cut median latencies up to 86% and accelerated schema-change rollout from a week to 24 hours—while earning multiple internal awards and peer bonuses. Earlier roles at Yelp, Palantir, and Skelter Labs show deep systems and distributed-systems expertise, from Kubernetes/networking and Docker/CNI optimizations to large-scale crawlers and probabilistic cardinality algorithms. He co-founded VisaKG to solve practical visa-scheduling problems and contributes to open-source DevOps tooling (notably improvements to Yelp’s PaaSTA), reflecting a knack for operationalizing complex systems end-to-end. Based in London and trained at KAIST, he combines hands-on engineering with cross-functional leadership and a curiosity that spans algorithmic research to production reliability.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Turkish, English, Kyrgyz, Russian
Github Skills (12)
release-management10
kubernetes10
paas10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd10
dockers9
docker9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
python8
testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 18 PRs, 43 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Azret's contributions primarily focused on improving the PaaSTA platform's infrastructure and release processes. They added checks to ensure Kubernetes pods are identified correctly and implemented validation for secret names within the PaaSTA CLI. The user also made changes related to Kubernetes node cleanup and automated releases. This work streamlined deployments and improved the reliability of the platform.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
azretkenzhaliev/KENS
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 20 days
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