Summary
Ashia Zawaduk is a Senior Platform Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building reliable, observable systems that move and transform large volumes of data at scale. She has driven production-facing work across streaming and batch pipelines—improving performance and operability for systems processing billions of events per day—and has substantial AWS, Kafka, Nomad, and Terraform expertise. Ashia combines backend development (mostly Python and FastAPI/Django) with platform ownership: containerization, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and security/compliance for production services. She’s proven at lifting legacy systems into maintainable, testable products and has delivered multi-tenant ingestion and streaming enrichment pipelines that accelerated indexing rates by orders of magnitude. Based in Edmonton, she pairs technical rigor with curiosity—studying mathematics and physics while enjoying painting and books—which informs a pragmatic, research-driven approach to solving complex infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc in Mathematics & Physics, BSc in Mathematics & Physics at The Open University
Digital Media & Design Application Development, Digital Media & Design Application Development at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)