Alon Gubkin
Founder & CEO at Alien
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlon Gubkin is a founder and software leader with 15 years of experience building cloud-native and AI-focused platforms from R&D to production. He co-founded Aporia, led its engineering as CTO and helped scale its AI observability product into enterprise adoption before its acquisition and subsequent VP AI Engineering role at Coralogix. Based in San Francisco, he now runs Alien, a startup that delivers fully managed customer-cloud deployments, combining product vision with hands-on technical execution. His background includes leading R&D teams in Israeli military intelligence and contributing low-level projects like a Cordova WebRTC implementation and a JavaScript spider compiler, showing comfort across systems, mobile, and language tooling. Collected experience across startups and security-conscious environments gives him a pragmatic approach to reliability, observability, and developer experience. He also maintains a public presence sharing technical ideas and demos, signaling a preference for practical, demonstrable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
parser10
ios10
mobile-development10
cordova10
compiler-development10
code-generation10
parsing10
android10
parse10
mobile10
webrtc10
charts9
angularjs9
html6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alongubkin/spider
Oct 2014 - Oct 2017
Unsurprising JavaScript - No longer active
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:335 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
Contributions summary:Alon contributed to the implementation and refinement of a JavaScript-based spider compiler. They added support for various features, including the `async`/`await` keywords, support for the "do while" loop, as well as various features related to function expression, pattern matching and object literals. These contributions improved the language's parsing capabilities and introduced more advanced language features. The code changes involved significant modifications to the parser, including the introduction of new grammar rules.
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alongubkin/phonertc
Mar 2014 - Oct 2017
WebRTC for Cordova apps - No longer active
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:213 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alon primarily worked on the implementation of a WebRTC-based mobile application, focusing on the integration of core features such as call initiation, receiving messages, and disconnection. They addressed platform-specific issues, and implemented a new JavaScript API. Their commits demonstrate a strong understanding of WebRTC principles within a Cordova environment and include implementations of the core components required for establishing and managing WebRTC sessions, specifically for Android and iOS platforms.
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