Alon Peretz is a pragmatic engineering leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of Ballerine (YC S22), an AI-driven platform for onboarding, underwriting, and monitoring businesses. With 11 years of experience across startups and scale-ups, he blends hands-on full-stack development with people leadership from roles at Remitly Israel and earlier CTO/tech lead positions. He is an active OSS contributor — notably helping migrate and harden the web SDK and developer docs for the ballerine-io project — demonstrating attention to developer experience as well as product UX. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Node.js, TS, GraphQL, Java, C++), he focuses on shipping resilient infrastructure for risk decisioning and compliance flows. Based in Tel Aviv, he pairs startup grit with an academic bent, having pursued graduate CS studies while scaling teams and products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
S22, S22 at Y Combinator
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Sapir College
M.Sc. Computer Science (on hold), M.Sc. Computer Science (on hold) at The Open University of Israel
Open-source infrastructure and data orchestration platform for risk decisioning
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions: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.
Go Implementation of the Spacemesh blockmesh p2p node. 💾⏰💪
Contributions:23 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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Alon Peretz - Co-Founder And CTO at Ballerine (YC S22)