Ismayil Mirzali
Senior Software Engineer at SAP
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolIsmayil Mirzali is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sofia with six years of hands-on experience building reliable cloud-native systems. He blends SRE and backend expertise, having improved build pipelines, dependency management, and manifest generation for the widely used Kubernetes ingress-nginx project. Prior roles span DevOps and SRE work at ROITI and Estafet, where he operated Kubernetes, Terraform/Pulumi, observability stacks and multi-cloud environments. Now at SAP, he focuses on delivering production-grade automation and resilience across distributed services. Colleagues know him for pragmatic, security-aware changes—bumping dependencies and removing fragile libraries rather than piling on patches. He pairs a Computer Science degree from the American University in Bulgaria with a taste for fixing the hard, behind-the-scenes problems that keep systems running.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at American University in Bulgaria
Github Skills (10)
dependency-management10
ingress-controller10
kubernetes10
go10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd10
dockers9
docker9
yaml8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/ingress-nginx
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ismayil primarily contributed to the infrastructure and build processes of the Ingress Nginx Controller. They focused on improving the build scripts, specifically by enhancing the generation of deployment manifests. They also addressed vulnerabilities by bumping Kubernetes dependencies and Go version. Their work extended to removing dependencies, updating client-go, and modifying status update functionality, showcasing a deep understanding of the project's dependencies and build processes.
nginxcontrollernginx-ingress-controlleringress-nginxingress-controller
ever-co/dev-pulumi
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:28 commits, 41 pushes in 1 month
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