Asha Andersen

Senior Backend Engineer · 7.0 years · B.E. in Information Technology, Eastfield Institute of Science

100 / 100

Why this score

Strongly matches the job requirements with 7 years of experience in Go backend engineering, including high-performance APIs and distributed systems.

Must-have skills: 50.0 / 50.0
Nice-to-have skills: 15.0 / 15.0
Years of experience: 15.0 / 15.0
Overall fit (meaning match): 20.0 / 20.0

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Skills

✓ Go✓ PostgreSQL✓ Docker✓ REST APIs + Kubernetes+ Kafka+ gRPC+ Redis

All skills found by the AI

Go, PostgreSQL, Docker, REST APIs, Git, Linux, AWS, Redis, Kafka, gRPC, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus

Resume text

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Asha Andersen
Senior Backend Engineer
[email protected] | Lisbon, Portugal

SUMMARY
Senior Backend Engineer with 7 years of experience. I enjoy turning messy problems into simple tools.

EXPERIENCE
Senior Backend Engineer — Cedar Health Systems (2025 – Present)
- Wrote gRPC APIs between internal services.
- Built Go services that handle 3,000 requests per second with p95 latency under 40 ms.
- Added tracing and Prometheus metrics, cutting incident debug time by half.

Backend Engineer — Greenfield Foods (2022 – 2025)
- Mentored 3 engineers moving from Python to Go.
- Added tracing and Prometheus metrics, cutting incident debug time by half.
- Designed a worker pool in Go that processes 1 million events per day from Kafka.

Software Engineer — Northwind Retail (2019 – 2022)
- Mentored 3 engineers moving from Python to Go.
- Wrote gRPC APIs between internal services.
- Built Go services that handle 3,000 requests per second with p95 latency under 40 ms.


SKILLS
Go, PostgreSQL, Docker, REST APIs, Git, Linux, AWS, Redis, Kafka, gRPC, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus

EDUCATION
B.E. in Information Technology, Eastfield Institute of Science (2019)