Nawaz Khazielakha
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolNawaz Khazielakha is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years’ experience building cloud-native systems, currently focused on Kubernetes at Apple in Mountain View. He specializes in Go and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience improving CI/CD and refactoring infrastructure code, notably contributing to the widely used cluster-api-provider-azure project to add custom VM DNS support and streamline pipelines. His background spans cloud migration, operators, and automation—from IBM work on APIConnect migration and upgrade operators to Microsoft Cluster API maintenance and triage leadership. Comfortable across backend and DevOps responsibilities, he has delivered database-agnostic test frameworks, scalable operators, and tooling that reduced operational friction. An ex-teaching assistant in distributed systems and algorithms, he blends practical production experience with a strong academic foundation and a curiosity for systems-level problems (and a penchant for snowboarding and racing outside work).
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and TechnologyIntermediate Mathematics Physics Chemistry, Intermediate Mathematics Physics Chemistry at St. Patrick's Jr CollegeAtomic Energy Central School
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Github Skills (15)
azure-aks10
azuread10
kubernetes10
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd10
dockers9
yaml9
docker9
terraformer8
terraform8
slack-api6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-azure
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:716 reviews, 18 commits, 164 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nawaz primarily contributed to the refactoring and maintenance of the `cluster-api-provider-azure` project. They updated annotation constants and refactored code to use these constants. They also focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline by removing dependencies and updating scripts to use installed tools such as kind and kustomize. Furthermore, the user added the ability to specify custom DNS settings for VMs, demonstrating a deep understanding of the project's underlying infrastructure.
cluster-apimicrosoft-azurek8s-sig-cluster-lifecyclek8s-provider-azure
nawazkh/cluster-api-provider-azure
Feb 2022 - Mar 2026
Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure
Contributions:77 PRs, 1165 pushes, 356 branches in 4 years 2 months
cluster-apimicrosoft-azure
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