Malika Aubakirova
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolMalika Aubakirova is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz with 11 years of engineering and investing experience focused on Security and AI x Infrastructure from pre-seed to Series B. She combines deep software engineering chops — including multiple roles at Google and Chronicle working on Search Infrastructure and Spanner-scale SRE — with venture experience at Greylock, MVP Ventures, and early scouting. Based in Palo Alto with an MBA from Stanford and a CS degree from the University of Chicago, she bridges technical rigor and deal-making fluency. Her background in AI research (EMNLP paper cited widely) and hands-on product internships at startups like Affirm give her a rare mix of research, product, and infra credibility. Known for getting things done, she evaluates companies through a practitioner’s lens, prioritizing founders who can build secure, scalable systems. An early global perspective from exchange programs and international study informs her ability to spot cross-border technology opportunities.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) ProgramBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of ChicagoNazarbayev Intellectual SchoolsMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessTulare Western High School
English, Russian, Kazakh, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
snippet10
web-platform10
javascript10
content-security-policy10
browserstack10
opera10
testing10
safari10
test-runner10
browser10
webkit10
gecko10
microsoft-edge10
google-chrome10
firefox10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aubakirova/webappsec-csp
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:149 pushes, 47 branches in 6 months
policysecurity-policysecuritycontent-security-policywebappsec
aubakirova/cracking_workshops
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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