About Us

Aspect Build was founded by former Google engineers who have deep experience with Bazel, Google’s internal build system that was later open-sourced.

Our founders were early contributors and maintainers of Bazel inside Google, where it was used to scale complex, multi-language codebases across global engineering teams.

Our insight was that while Bazel provides a highly efficient and scalable core build engine, organizations outside Google needed a richer ecosystem of tools, integrations, and services to adopt Bazel successfully.

Company history and objectives

Alex Eagle and Greg Magolan co-founded Aspect Build in 2021 to commercialize Google’s open sourced build system Bazel as the Linux Foundation Bazel open source project.

We began with Bazel services and then released the Aspect Workflows developer productivity platform.

Our company name is a nod to Bazel's core concepts. In Bazel, an "aspect" is a powerful extension that enriches the build graph with additional insights, actions, and dependencies — unlocking deeper analysis and automation. Meanwhile, code and builds are structured in "BUILD" files.

Just like Bazel aspects enhance the build process, Aspect Build enhances your developer experience with Bazel expert services and our developer productivity platform.