Asa Katida
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Trase
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsa Katida is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient cloud and network infrastructure for large enterprises. He has driven reliability and incident response improvements at scale—most recently as Sr Staff SRE at Zscaler—implementing automated monitoring that cut detection time by 60% and establishing SLO-driven operational standards for services used by 100K+ end users. Comfortable across Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, and multi-cloud environments, Asa pairs technical leadership with practical runbooks and cross-functional coordination to reduce MTTR and prevent customer impact. He’s a polyglot developer who has contributed to the RethinkDB Python driver, showing attention to both data-layer correctness and integrations for realtime systems. Based in Asheville, NC, Asa blends systems-level troubleshooting with a product-minded approach to enable secure, scalable network performance.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (8)
json10
databases10
rethinkdb10
python10
rethinkdb-go10
database10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rethinkdb/rethinkdb
Jul 2014 - Oct 2015
The open-source database for the realtime web.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Asa primarily focused on improving the Python driver for the RethinkDB database. Their contributions included adding support for importing data in a document-per-line format, fixing issues related to JSON parsing and EOF handling during data import, and refactoring code to improve readability and compatibility. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs and enhanced the Python driver's integration with the database, demonstrating a deep understanding of the system's internal workings.
database
asakatida/HelloPersist
Sep 2018 - Nov 2025
Hello world persistence
Contributions:130 PRs, 139 pushes, 34 branches in 7 years 4 months
sqldatabaseormpersistence
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