Jerry Aska

Professional Experience

Backend & infrastructure engineer focused on distributed systems and production reliability.

Impact highlights

  • Led backend design and implementation of multi-region routing for a previously single-region service, defining API contracts and data flows to support region-aware traffic.
  • Strengthened service reliability by extending canaries and designing escalation workflows, reducing customer notification time to ~45 minutes.
  • Deployed microservices to AWS isolated partitions (IL6), reducing region expansion time by one week.
  • Participated in on-call rotations, debugging distributed production systems via logs, metrics, and code-level investigation.

Core skills

Languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Bash, C++

Infrastructure

AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, CI/CD

Focus areas

Distributed systems, reliability, backend services