Isgandar Valizada
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolIsgandar Valizada is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM with a five-year track record of leading cross-functional teams to enable IBM Power components in Turbonomic and delivering hybrid cloud software. He combines deep back-end expertise—contributing to notable open-source projects like ManageIQ—with experience across AI/ML, image recognition deployment, and REST API design. His background spans system-level work on IBM Z and DB2, automated provisioning for s390x, and front-end development with React/Redux, reflecting full-stack versatility. As an IBM Quantum Ambassador he explores quantum computing theory and algorithms, bringing research-minded curiosity to production engineering. He has a strong academic foundation in applied mathematics and computer science from Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry and the University of Freiburg, where he also contributed to award-winning digital preservation projects. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who refactors legacy systems into modern, maintainable architectures while mentoring newer developers.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics at Azerbaijan State University of Oil and IndustryMaster of Science - MS, Applied Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Applied Computer Science at The University of Freiburg
Azerbaijani, Russian, German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
ruby-rails10
manageiq10
rails10
cloud-computing10
ruby10
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
ansible-galaxy8
ansible8
api-design7
apim7
api7
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/manageiq
Aug 2020 - May 2022
ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 17 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Isgandar primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the ManageIQ platform, specifically within the operating system and provision workflow modules. Their work involved refactoring code, renaming methods, and migrating code to use modern constructs like `%i` and adding support for importing images between providers, with a focus on IBM PVS and PVC integration. This included modifying the `MiqScheduleWorker` and its associated jobs to incorporate an image import dispatcher, along with broader refactoring efforts to abstract the image import workflow.
gcporigamiopenshiftcephredfish
iv1111/manageiq-providers-ibm_cloud
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
ManageIQ plugin for the IBM Cloud provider
Contributions:188 pushes, 56 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 1 month
citrixprovidervcenteribm-cloudalibabacloud
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