Aysberg Arts

Aysylu is currently based in NYC. She is of Tatar ethnicity, grew up in Russia, and speaks multiple languages to various degrees of fluency.

Career Aysylu is an Executive Director at a Quantitative Hedge Fund. Previously, she was a Staff Software Engineer at Google. During her career, she has worked on several large-scale infrastructure systems, such as Google Drive and Search Infrastructure, open-source projects Grafeas and Kritis, created the open-source Fleetbench, a benchmarking suite for Google workloads, and led multiple zero-downtime migrations to successful completion.

Public Speaking & Industry Conferences Aysylu speaks at technology conferences around the world on zero downtime migrations, best practices in distributed systems design and operations, and performance engineering. Aysylu has contributed to the technology industry through her open source work on Grafeas, Kritis, and Loom projects. She has served as a Program Committee Co-Chair at InfoQ’s QCon conferences, talk selection committees, and a speaker coach.

Dance Aysylu started dancing at the age of 5 as a competitive ballroom dancer (Intl Standard & Intl Latin). She won many regional competitions and placed in the finals consistently. Aysylu also received training in ballet and modern dance. At the age of fifteen she started training in belly dance. In college, Aysylu taught and choreographed 3 belly dance performances. As an adult, she has been training in street dance styles.

Music Aysylu graduated with an 8-year education diploma in music, trained as a concert pianist. The rigid curriculum included music theory, solfeggio, world and Tatar music history, piano ensemble, and choir. She performed a solo concert of the Children's Album by Tchaikovsky at the age of nine; competed and won prizes at piano competitions, such as Tatarstan Regional Chamber Music Competition in a trio with 2 violins; played with an orchestra and performed on many occasions. In addition, she studied music composition and improvisation and trained with the Prorector of the Kazan Conservatory Aleksandr Maklygin.

Visual Art While Aysylu doesn’t have formal training in visual arts, she enjoys oil painting and drawing in her spare time, and has produced several works in these media. Her oil painting was exhibited at the Castle Gould in Sands Point Preserve.

Academics Aysylu graduated with B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, with concentration in German studies. Her favorite classes were compiler design and optimizations, performance engineering, and algorithms. As part of the MIT MISTI, Aysylu traveled around Germany and taught Ecology and Robotics to German high school students, and did an internship at Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH. In addition, she worked on cutting edge research at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) in Prof. Martin Rinard's group, focusing on the effect of data races on performance and accuracy of aggregative loops.

Aysylu graduated from her school in Russia with a gold medal, which is given to students who had all A's through all 10 years of their studies. While in high school, she participated in the English language and Ecology olympiads. She competed in the Russian National Ecology Olympiad her senior year of high school representing her region. Her passion for public speaking started during her involvement with ecology olympiads in high school, through which she presented and won awards at many research conferences in Tatarstan.