Ashia Zawaduk

Senior Platform Engineer @Parse.Ly

Developed operational knowledge of a real-time processing pipeline handling over 1B events/day via lambda architecture (Kafka, Storm, EMR/Spark); troubleshooting performance and operational issues in distributed environments.• Containerized an internal app and worker processes, building Docker images and configuring GitLab CI/CD pipelines, NGINX/ALB, and Nomad job specs, enabling self-serve releases and cutting deploy times from weeks to hours.• Supported platform infrastructure tasks using Terraform and Ansible, including Kafka node maintenance, EC2 resizing, andprovisioning Nomad jobs; quickly ramped up on unfamiliar tooling.• Contributed to data team onboarding by diagnosing local setup issues, simplifying Kafka/Storm testing environments, and documenting best practices for common apps.• Improved code maintainability in the core Dashboard app by centralizing Datadog metric logic behind a new telemetry interface and upgrading the client library in a legacy Django codebase with version-specific configuration hurdles.