Asa Kusuma
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAsa Kusuma is a Staff Software Engineer in San Jose with 17 years of hands-on experience and nine years of professional work building scalable web and native applications, currently focused on web performance and infrastructure at LinkedIn. He blends technical leadership across horizontal application infrastructure with product-focused engineering, shipping next‑gen single-page and mobile web architectures. An active open-source contributor, Asa has helped improve Ember.js and Glimmer VM rendering and routing internals—work that impacts many ambitious JavaScript apps. He favors craftsmanship, functional languages, and team-driven development, and has spoken at BackboneConf and SugarCon on practical frontend topics. Starting from high‑school internships, his diverse background spans health, education, social, and outdoor-recreation domains, reflecting a knack for turning varied domain needs into robust technical solutions.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Abilene Christian UniversityHigh School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (23)
url-routing10
javascript10
compilation10
component-development10
typescript10
glimmerjs10
gjs10
emberjs10
front-end-development10
compile10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
testing9
javascript-framework9
ember8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
glimmerjs/glimmer-vm
May 2016 - Mar 2017
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 32 PRs, 44 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Asa contributed to the development of the Glimmer VM, focusing on enhancements related to component rendering and template compilation. They implemented support for tagless components and static fragments, improving rendering efficiency. Code changes included modifications to compiler logic and test cases to ensure correct behavior. Furthermore, the user worked on implementing and testing partials, improving template flexibility.
glimmerjsemberjstypescript
emberjs/ember.js
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 42 PRs, 164 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Asa primarily contributed to the Ember.js framework, focusing on implementing and improving the routing and component functionalities. They added support for the `willTransition` hook in the router and ensured the `transitionTo` method returns a transition object. The user also made several changes related to instrumenting actions and dom events, with additional support for instrumenting the link-to helper, thus enhancing the framework's debugging and performance capabilities.
emberjsjavascript-frameworkemberjavascript
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