Arjun Attam is a technology leader and founder with 12 years of experience building developer-facing products, startups, and go-to-market teams across India and globally. Currently co-founder of empirical.run, he previously led product at 100ms and was the first PM on Playwright at Microsoft, shaping an open-source web testing tool that is now widely used in the industry. His background blends hands-on engineering and QA automation—contributing to Playwright's test infrastructure—with strategy roles from Chief of Staff at Setu to founding early-stage companies. He has entrepreneurial roots (building and selling a pediatric SaaS) and operator chops from scaling customer success and product teams at HyperTrack and others. Trained in Math and Computing at IIT Delhi and experienced in policy and consulting, he pairs analytical rigor with practical product delivery. Colleagues describe him as a maker who moves quickly from prototype to production while keeping developer experience front and center.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Graduate Certificate in Public Policy, Graduate Certificate in Public Policy at The Takshashila Institution
Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj
Exchange student Information Systems, Exchange student Information Systems at Ecole des Mines d'Alès
Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:19 reviews, 85 commits, 130 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Arjun primarily contributed to the Playwright project by implementing and refining testing procedures. Their work included fixing issues related to input handling within the `fill` action, as demonstrated by changes to the test suite and source code. They also enhanced the example documentation and improved the test infrastructure, such as fixing screenshot paths on test failures. This suggests a focus on improving the reliability and usability of the testing framework.
Contributions:118 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 months
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