Watt Poosanguansit
Senior Data Engineer And Architect
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWatt Poosanguansit is a Senior Data Engineer and Architect based in the Los Angeles area with 14–15 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud-native data systems. AWS Associate Solutions Architect, Scrum Master, and Sun/Java certified, he blends deep proficiency in object and functional languages (Java, Python, Scala, Clojure and more) with practical DevOps skills across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform-style tooling, Vagrant and Ansible. At Playground Studio he has led full lifecycle projects—architecting systems, implementing core services, and coaching teams to operationalize reliable pipelines. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved HTTP header handling in the widely used zio-http Scala framework, demonstrating attention to protocol correctness and testing. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Watt combines academic rigor (M.S. in Computer Science from DePaul) with a persistent drive to simplify complex distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at DePaul University
Github Skills (10)
scala10
http10
http-server10
http-client10
zio10
testing10
websockets-client4
websocket4
client-websocket4
websocket-client4
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
zio/zio-http
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A next-generation Scala framework for building scalable, correct, and efficient HTTP clients and servers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Watt primarily contributed to the `zio-http` project by implementing and refining HTTP header functionalities. Their work involved adding and modifying header codecs for features like connection, expires, and content encoding, as well as adding support for AccessControlAllowMaxAge and AccessControlAllowOrigin headers. These changes included modifying code within the `HeaderCodecs` and value objects. Additionally, the user updated test suites to ensure symmetrical transformations and proper parsing of header values.
zioscala-libraryhttp-clientwebsocketscala
cardano-foundation/incentivized-testnet-stakepool-registry
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 13 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
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