Arto Bendiken
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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RockstarArto Bendiken is a seasoned software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 19 years of experience building developer-facing systems and protocols. He is the creator and lead on the ASIMOV Protocol and Platform, a knowledge layer focused on trustworthy machine interactions, and brings prior experience from NEAR to decentralized and web3 infrastructure. An active open-source maintainer, Arto’s contributions span the Ruby ecosystem—such as implementing core throttling logic and cache strategies in rack-throttle—and projects like unlicense, CECG, and Ruby-RDF. He combines deep backend engineering with protocol design, often tackling reliability and trust problems that sit between distributed systems and developer tooling. A less obvious trait: he frequently moves between low-level middleware improvements and high-level protocol architectures, bridging practical implementation with long-term platform thinking.
19 years of coding experience
English, Swedish, Finnish, German, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
caching10
rack10
rubygems10
charts10
api-design9
javascript9
graph6
dart6
sqlite6
enviroment6
command-line6
flutter6
database6
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
dryruby/rack-throttle
Mar 2010 - Jul 2016
Rack middleware for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Arto primarily focused on developing the core functionality of the `rack-throttle` middleware. Their contributions include implementing the `Limiter` class, essential methods such as `forbidden`, `rate_limit_exceeded`, and `whitelisted?`, and stub classes for different throttling strategies. Further work involved implementing the `Interval` strategy and improving the cache API. Additionally, they added features like `Retry-After` header support and improved documentation.
http-requestssinatrarack-middlewareincomingrack
dryc/libc11
May 2013 - Sep 2017
A public domain implementation of the C11 standard library.
Contributions:186 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 5 months
public-domainc99c11standard-librarydomain
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