Leyla Azizova
Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeyla Azizova is an engineering manager with over a decade of software engineering experience and five years leading teams at Google, now based in San Jose. She specializes in release and deployment automation, reliability, and full product lifecycle delivery, having owned a release pipeline that serves 30k+ internal projects and enables 100k+ daily deployments. Leyla has a strong track record of building effective, psychologically safe teams, mentoring engineers, and scoping work to deliver measurable productivity gains—her features have saved users roughly five engineer-years. She led the Civiform open-source project deployment on AWS, enabling a state to go live in under an hour, and has repeatedly improved testing and observability to boost maintainability. Comfortable shipping across Golang, Python, Java, and infrastructure-as-code, she combines hands-on engineering with strategic roadmap execution. Her background teaching algorithms and early cross-platform tooling work hints at a long-standing commitment to pragmatic, well-engineered solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys)
English, Russian
Github Skills (9)
simplify10
collaboration9
azure-deployment6
terraform6
documentation5
devops5
kubernetes4
aws4
pattern3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
azizova-leyla/hematoma
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:36 PRs, 28 pushes, 39 branches in 2 months
civiform/civiform-staging-deploy
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Example AWS and Azure deployment configurations used for CiviForm's live staging environments.
Contributions:8 reviews, 14 commits, 28 PRs in 5 months
awsazure-deployment
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