Tanzeeb Khalili
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTanzeeb Khalili is a Staff Software Engineer in Toronto with 11+ years designing and shipping cloud-native systems, databases, and developer tooling. He blends hands-on engineering (Go, JavaScript, Ruby, Postgres/MySQL, Redis) with leadership experience from engineering manager roles at Pivotal/VMware through his current role at Google. Tanzeeb has a practical bias for solving hard problems simply—often making complex distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines look routine. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects like Concourse and Knative, improving front-end UX, test infrastructure, and backend reliability for scale-to-zero serverless and container automation. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs operational know-how (BOSH, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, Docker) with pragmatic test automation to ship resilient services. Colleagues describe him as an effective communicator who elevates teams while still shipping code himself.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at McMaster University
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Github Skills (44)
bosh10
kubernetes10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
testing10
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acceptance-testing10
dockers10
cicd10
concourse10
go10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
knative/serving
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Kubernetes-based, scale-to-zero, request-driven compute
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:32 commits, 34 PRs, 339 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Tanzeeb primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure and functionality of the Knative Serving project. They implemented and extended end-to-end (e2e) and conformance tests, adding features like the `--namespace` flag for improved testability. Their work involved modifying existing test files, creating new tests for features like protocols, gRPC load balancing and autoscaling behavior, and integrating new test images. They also refactored and improved existing testing components.
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cloudfoundry/bosh
Aug 2016 - Dec 2017
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:43 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tanzeeb's contributions focused on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure components. They updated the progressbar gem and resolved an error during release uploads. Furthermore, the user implemented support for a new build pipeline for cloudfoundry/gnatsd, demonstrating expertise in building and testing Go applications, as well as configuring CI/CD processes for cloud services. These changes show a focus on operational efficiency and supporting BOSH deployments.
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