Ariel Fogel
Founding Engineer And Researcher at Pillar Security
United States
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Top SchoolAriel Fogel is a product-focused founding engineer and researcher with 11 years of experience building research-driven tools, internal platforms, and early-stage products across education, AR research, and security. They combine rapid prototyping and deployment skills—demonstrated by shipping MVPs for surgical training and augmented reality lab tools that enabled multiple peer-reviewed publications—with product engineering that scaled internal operations and cohort management. Ariel has bridged data and product work as a former data engineer at MasterClass and led teams to build visualization and research tooling used by hundreds of students. Based in the United States, they gravitate toward projects at the intersection of design, research, and engineering and bring a pragmatic, user-centered approach to turning complex research needs into production-ready software. An unexpected personal touch: they like silly hats, signaling a playful curiosity that surfaces in creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Learning Sciences, Master of Arts - MA Learning Sciences at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBA Music Behavioral Economics (Self-designed), BA Music Behavioral Economics (Self-designed) at Muhlenberg CollegeDev BootcampBerkeley City College
Hebrew, Spanish
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Github Skills (186)
pii10
mobile-development10
ui-components10
deno-deploy10
pipeline-framework10
deep-learning10
pitch10
shadcn-ui10
drizzle10
stream-processing10
streaming10
calculator10
javascript10
jquery10
radix10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
UW-MAGIC-lab/hidden_village
Nov 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:16 reviews, 32 PRs, 119 pushes in 3 years 1 month
afogel/dotfiles
May 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
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