Alon Peretz
Co-Founder And CTO at Ballerine (YC S22)
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolAlon Peretz is a Co-Founder and CTO with 10 years of software engineering and leadership experience based in Tel Aviv, currently building Ballerine (YC S22), an AI platform for onboarding, underwriting and monitoring businesses. He combines hands-on full‑stack development with people leadership from prior roles at Remitly Israel where he advanced from software engineer to engineering manager. Alon’s technical breadth spans C++ game engine and desktop app work to cloud-native fintech stacks using Node.js, GraphQL, TypeScript, Java and distributed datastores like Cassandra and Neo4j. As an active open-source contributor to Ballerine, he has driven developer-experience improvements—migrating the web SDK to a monorepo, adding sourcemaps, refining UI overlays and integrating KYC/KYB flows. Pragmatic and product-minded, he is also pursuing an M.Sc. in computer science (on hold), reflecting ongoing investment in technical depth alongside startup execution.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
S22, S22 at Y CombinatorB.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Sapir CollegeM.Sc., Computer Science (on hold), M.Sc., Computer Science (on hold) at The Open University of Israel
English, Italian
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Github Skills (16)
javascript10
svelte10
web-development10
sdk10
javascripts10
ui-design9
frontend-development9
front-end-development9
ui-d9
orchestra9
orchestration9
back-end-development8
graphql6
graphql-js6
nodejs6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ballerine-io/ballerine
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Open-source infrastructure and data orchestration platform for risk decisioning
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1206 reviews, 96 commits, 1838 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alon's commits primarily focus on developing and refactoring the web SDK within the `ballerine` repository. They've migrated the web SDK to a monorepo structure and added sourcemaps. The commits indicate improvements to the UI, including fixing overlay issues and integrating KYC/KYB flows. They also included modifications to example files and added a documentation website to improve the project’s usability and developer experience.
onboardingidvknow-your-customerriskats
alonp99/go-spacemesh
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Go Implementation of the Spacemesh blockmesh p2p node. 💾⏰💪
Contributions:23 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
golangp2pblockchainblockmeshdfinity
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