Zalkar Z
Engineering at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZalkar Z is an experienced software engineer based in San Francisco with nine years building cloud and AI infrastructure across startups and tech giants. He has worked on Google Maps and Search at Google, contributed to enterprise AI at C3 AI, and helped scale DevOps and cloud infrastructure at DigitalOcean and Packet/Equinix Metal. Comfortable in both startup and large-company contexts, he brings practical experience shipping production systems from Series B growth to global platforms. His background spans core infra, developer tooling, and applied AI—an uncommon blend that helps bridge product needs and scalable backend architecture. Outside work he shares thoughts publicly (see Twitter), signaling an interest in community visibility beyond code.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Bennington College
English, Russian, Kyrgyz
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
5g9
packet9
bare9
4g9
marketplace9
ospf9
kubernetes8
rdma8
devops7
bare-metal7
digitalocean7
metal7
azure7
golang6
baduk6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zalkar-z/old-bookshelf
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
My personal bookshelf. Feel free to fork this repo to make your own and don't forget to share your favorite books.
Contributions:1 review, 29 PRs, 88 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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zalkar-z/zalkar-z
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 4 years 4 months
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