Asa Downs
Staff Software Engineer at Thoughtful AI
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAsa Downs is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience delivering full-stack, cloud-native products that blend pragmatic engineering with measurable business impact. Comfortable from TypeScript frontends to Python data pipelines and AWS/Azure/GCP infrastructure, he has repeatedly turned struggling launches into on-time, feature-complete releases and built reusable tooling and CICD patterns that scale across teams. He’s led engineering and compliance efforts for medical device SaaS, architected petabyte-scale media ingestion at Amazon Studios, and driven reliability and supply-chain microservices at Bird. A practiced communicator and Toastmasters advanced speaker, Asa pairs hands-on coding with technical program leadership, writing much of his teams’ architecture and SDLC documentation. His background in molecular biology and early career in analytics and probability inform a data-minded approach to product decisions and systems design.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Molecular & Cellular Biology (Neurobiology emphasis) and Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Molecular & Cellular Biology (Neurobiology emphasis) and Sociology at University of California, Berkeley
English
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Github Skills (70)
realms10
mobility10
two-way10
netsuite10
geofencing10
ccpa10
mds10
devrel9
backbonejs9
aws-s39
spec9
mhealth9
storage9
open-data9
aws-amplify8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
asadowns/mobility-data-specification
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
A data standard for Mobility as a Service Providers who work within in the City of Los Angeles
Contributions:6 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
cdrdata-standardmobilitylosstrava
asadowns/machine-learning-coursera
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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