Ariel Kogan
Tech Lead at JFrog
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolAriel Kogan is a pragmatic tech lead with over 14 years of hands-on engineering and 18 years in the IT industry, currently driving teams at JFrog from Tel Aviv. He blends deep Java and systems experience with leadership roles across startups and scale-ups—Lemonade, monday.com, Empire Media and earlier innovation labs at NET-A-PORTER and BMC—consistently focusing on lean delivery and practical solutions. Ariel holds an MSE in Informatics Engineering and favors leading by example, mentoring teams while staying hands-on with architecture and complex problem solving. He has moved between product and R&D leadership, which gives him a knack for translating experimental ideas into production-grade systems. Known for a calm, pragmatic approach, he seeks elegant, maintainable answers rather than unnecessary complexity. Fluent in cross-functional collaboration, he thrives where engineering rigor meets product urgency.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Technician, Electronics, Electronics Technician, Electronics at Escuela Técnica ORT IMaster of Science in Engineering, Informatics Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering, Informatics Engineering at Universidad de Buenos Aires
Hebrew, English, Spanish
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java
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json
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jackson
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Github Skills (91)
databinding10
jackson10
json10
java10
wordpress-rest-api10
sdk9
custom-fields9
wordpress-api9
media9
azure8
localization8
wordpress8
mongoose8
azure-functions8
plugin8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arikogan/arikogan.github.com
May 2012 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 5 years 2 months
arikogan/mysql-gelf
May 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
graylogmysqlstatusbashbash-script
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