Asa Witt
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsa Witt is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building production systems across fast-moving Bay Area tech companies and now contributing at OpenAI. He blends strong machine learning interest with hands-on backend and web engineering, having progressed from software roles to senior and staff positions at WePay, Twitch, and Datadog. Comfortable shipping at scale, Asa pairs competitive programming rigor with a research-minded curiosity about psychology and neuroscience, exploring how neural principles can inform software design. Based in San Francisco and trained at McGill, he brings a professional engineering pedigree and a tendency to bridge applied ML work with practical, reliable system engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at McGill University
English
Github Skills (18)
data-science9
scheduler9
python9
machine-learning9
automation9
orchestration8
data-integration8
mlops8
etl8
apache8
workflow-engine8
data-engineering8
airflow7
elt7
dag7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
asawitt/PythonDisjointSet
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
asawitt/TExtension
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push in 8 months
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