Assaf Arkin
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAssaf Arkin is a founder and CEO based in Los Angeles building Rentail, a conversational AI platform that helps merchants and shopping centers reduce vacancy. He is a seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience as a CTO and engineering manager across startups and enterprises, including Broadly and Overdryve. An early Apache committer and Manning author, he blends product, platform, and engineering with hands-on work across backend and frontend systems. He’s an active open-source contributor—implementing core experiment-driven features in the Vanity A/B testing library, building a HipChat adapter for Hubot, and improving the Zombie headless-browser tester. He blogs at labnotes.org and prefers to hash out new ideas over coffee.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
apim10
javascript10
a-b-test10
node-js10
coffeescript10
jquery10
a-b-testing10
testing10
bots10
ab-testing10
abtesting10
ruby10
javascripts10
api10
browser-testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
assaf/zombie
Dec 2010 - Apr 2020
Insanely fast, full-stack, headless browser testing using node.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1467 commits, 72 PRs in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Assaf was primarily focused on front-end development, making numerous updates to browser compatibility and testing. They implemented and debugged new features in the browser testing framework. The user was also responsible for testing compatibility with different jQuery versions. They performed several updates to the user interface in JavaScript.
headless-browserprotractorbrowserjsdomnode-js
assaf/vanity
Feb 2009 - Sep 2013
Experiment Driven Development for Ruby
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:321 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Assaf implemented the core structure for the Vanity library, focusing on Experiment Driven Development for Ruby. They created the `Vanity::Playground` class, managing experiment catalogs, defining, and retrieving experiments. Additionally, the user set up the test infrastructure by implementing the test/playground\_test.rb test file. They also introduced the core `Base` class to define experiments, and A/B testing, making a solid foundation for further development in the project.
railsruby
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