Akosua A
Software Developer at PagerDuty
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAkosua A is a software developer with 10 years of full‑stack experience building scalable web applications using JavaScript frameworks (Angular/AngularJS, Vue, React), Node, Scala, PHP, and newer backend work in Elixir and Ruby on Rails. At PagerDuty she progressed from SDE I to SDE IV, leading cross-functional teams to modernize core domain models, replace legacy automation with a workflow platform, and productionize an innovative Transactional Outbox enhancement using ksqlDB. She’s comfortable designing greenfield REST APIs, extending real‑time Scala actor systems, and leveraging Kafka and AWS to deliver distributed microservices. Known for clean, well‑tested code, she also mentors junior engineers, runs internal workshops, and helps drive Elixir adoption through an internal guild. Her background in biochemistry and early roles in analytics and customer success give her a strong analytical mindset and an ability to translate user needs into technical solutions. Based in Toronto, she blends practical engineering leadership with a curiosity for new languages and patterns that improve reliability and operability.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Biochemistry, Bachelor’s Degree Biochemistry at University of Waterloo
Finnish, French, twi, English
Github Skills (147)
metadata10
torrent10
video-library10
webstorm10
pagerduty10
rubymine10
subtitle10
elixir-mix10
cordova10
mediainfo10
appcode10
editor9
clion9
javascript9
code-review9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
akosasante/KwasiAsante.github.io
May 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 84 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 10 months
akosasante/AwardShowVoter
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
Award show voting web app built in Node, Express, and Pug
Contributions:5 PRs, 18 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
node-expressexpressjspugjavascriptexpress
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