Rail Aliiev
Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure at Cockroach Labs
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRail Aliiev is a seasoned Software Engineer specializing in Developer Infrastructure and CI/CD with over two decades of experience architecting and running mission-critical release systems at scale. Currently at Cockroach Labs, he focuses on cloud-based orchestration, provisioning, and release automation while contributing to high-profile open-source projects like CockroachDB by improving CI workflows and FIPS-enabled builds. Previously a Staff Release Engineer at Mozilla and an early CIO across startups, he blends leadership, cross-team coordination, and hands-on automation to reduce friction for developer teams. Based in Ontario, Canada, he brings a practical, security-minded approach to building resilient pipelines and a demonstrated knack for solving complex deployment problems that others consider edge cases.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business Administration, BS, Business Administration at Istanbul Üniversitesi
Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, English
Github Skills (15)
automation10
bash10
docker10
docker-compose10
automations10
fips10
ci-cd-pipeline10
dockers10
gcp10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
linux9
go9
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:2027 reviews, 318 commits, 1323 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Rail primarily contributed to the Continuous Integration (CI) and release automation workflows within the CockroachDB project. They implemented and modified scripts for various tasks, including FIPS build automation, building the project on a per-platform basis, and pushing docker images to the GCS and Docker Hub. They also were responsible for fixing the issue with the deployment in FIPS enabled mode. The user's work improved the build process efficiency and reliability.
cloud-nativecockroachdbhigh-availabilitysql-databasego
rail/cockroach-operator
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
k8s operator for CRDB
Contributions:7 PRs, 70 pushes, 89 branches in 3 years 9 months
k8s-operatoroperatork8skuberneteskubernetes-operator
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