Anna Szybalska
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAnna Szybalska is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Zurich with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, security-sensitive systems at Google. She currently leads the Privacy Serving SRE team in Zurich and previously worked across ProdSec services like Zanzibar and Cloud IAM, demonstrating deep expertise in access control, ACL-enabled search, and production reliability. Anna combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, moving from IC roles to team leadership while shaping privacy-focused SRE practices. An active open-source contributor, she enhanced the popular xonsh Python-powered shell by implementing a prompt_toolkit-based interface and fixing autocompletion and history behaviors—work that reflects her attention to developer experience. Educated at Jagiellonian University and ETH Zurich, she pairs rigorous academic training with a track record of shipping robust, secure infrastructure at scale.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichV Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Augusta Witkowskiego w KrakowieBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
English, Polish, German
Github Skills (15)
prompt-toolkit10
sh10
command-line-interface10
script10
shell10
python10
scripting10
cli10
command-line10
readline9
xonsh9
testing8
git7
devops5
bash4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xonsh/xonsh
May 2015 - May 2015
🐚 Python-powered shell. Full-featured, cross-platform and AI-friendly.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 15 days
Contributions summary:Anna primarily focused on enhancing the xonsh shell's functionality by implementing a `prompt_toolkit`-based shell as an alternative to the existing `readline` shell. Their work involved significant changes to core shell components, including `readline_shell.py`, `prompt_toolkit_shell.py`, and `prompt_toolkit_history.py`. They added features like <TAB> indentation, fixed autocompletion bugs, and introduced command-line options for shell type selection. They also implemented and tested history functionalities for the `prompt_toolkit` shell.
aipythonshellxonshdevops
anula/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Sep 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 1 month
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