Natik Gadzhi
Engineeting Manager, Cloud APIs at Lambda
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNatik Gadzhi is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-performing teams and developer-focused infrastructure from seed-stage startups to scale-ups in the Bay Area. Currently leading Cloud APIs at Lambda after managing inference apps and large connector growth at Airbyte, he combines hands-on systems work with people-first management—“taking care of the humans who make computers do good things.” He has deep operational chops in CI/CD and backend systems, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Airbyte and SwiftNIO where he improved build pipelines and low-level ByteBuffer functionality. As Zipline’s first engineering manager and a former director, he established engineering culture, interview loops, and mentoring programs that translated directly into revenue and faster customer rollouts. A former founder who shipped SaaS on bare-metal Kubernetes early, he brings product intuition and pragmatic technical leadership to cloud-native and data-integration problems. Colleagues describe him as a coachable, systems-minded manager who prefers shipping reliable developer tooling and smoothing the path for engineers to do their best work.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Project Management, Master's degree, Project Management at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
English, Russian
Github Skills (20)
asynchronous10
github-ci10
docker10
async10
build-system10
dockers10
cicd10
bytebuffer10
release-management10
automation10
swift10
build-tools10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
codable9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
airbytehq/airbyte
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1067 reviews, 1408 PRs, 1206 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Natik primarily contributed to the CI/CD pipeline and tooling, focusing on automating tasks and improving the build process. They worked on allowing empty pull request numbers for `migrate-base-image` command and moved generated code to `airbyte-ci` to build it correctly. Additional contributions included unpinning pytest and upgrading to a recent base image version and formatting cleanup. They also updated the PR generation flow and fixed a bug, indicating a focus on improving the overall development workflow.
operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse
apple/swift-nio
Oct 2020 - Jan 2025
Event-driven network application framework for high performance protocol servers & clients, non-blocking.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 reviews, 10 PRs, 102 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Natik primarily focused on enhancing the `ByteBuffer` functionality within the SwiftNIO framework. They implemented `hexDump` methods, adding the capability to generate hexadecimal dumps compatible with `xxd` and `hexdump` utilities. Furthermore, the user added the `Codable` conformance for `ByteBuffer` and the related base64 encoding logic, and added the `Int(buffer:)` initializer. The user also added a String initializer for `FilePath`. Additionally, they added a new `NIO.TimeAmount` parsing and description feature.
swift5event-drivennon-blockingswift-servertcp
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