Ashank Dsouza

About

Engineer with startup experience who emphasizes disciplined Agile execution (requirements analysis, Jira tasking, sprint planning) and production readiness (testing/QA/PR review). Uses profiling/logging for high-observability debugging and prioritizes incidents by impact. Has demoed engineering processes and worked directly with a client (Canadian music service) to position product capabilities and future extensions to drive adoption.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Structured requirements discovery and sprint-ready task breakdown (Jira) ahead of planned work
• Agile change management—defers disruptive work to next sprint to protect delivery
• Real-time troubleshooting using profiling/logging to improve observability and speed root-cause analysis
• Pragmatic incident prioritization (breaking changes first; then highest impact/disruption)
• Adapts technical demos/workshops by assessing audience baseline knowledge and filling gaps
• Communicates product roadmap/extensions to support customer adoption
• Built CI/CD pipelines to deploy multiple components (frontend, data analysis wrapper) plus automated database refresh
• High-availability mindset: maintained redundant servers and executed rapid switchover after a security-related server failure
• Systematic multi-layer debugging (DNS → ports/AWS permissions → Nginx → Docker → application)
• Performance optimization in Python: converted thousands of synchronous API calls to AsyncIO, reducing refresh time to ~45 minutes
• Handled API rate limits effectively by implementing throttling
• Customer-facing requirements discovery: ran weekly/bimonthly sessions to resolve ambiguous Figma requirements and align UI decisions