Asaf Cohen
Co-Founder And Board Member at Permit.io
Ramat Gan, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAsaf Cohen is a tech entrepreneur and seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building secure, scalable systems across startups and large tech firms. As co-founder and former CTO of Permit.io he helped pioneer modern access control infrastructure for developers, translating deep R&D roots into product-grade security offerings. His background includes senior engineering roles at Facebook and Microsoft and early core-team work at Unbound Security, giving him practical expertise at the intersection of enterprise security, cryptography and cloud infrastructure. He’s now exploring how AI and autonomous agents reshape access, data protection and organizational workflows while balancing empowerment with robust security. A former Israeli military intelligence architect with an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, he brings a mix of disciplined systems thinking and startup grit. Colleagues describe him as a founder who pairs hands-on engineering with strategic foresight on emerging security paradigms.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (52)
json-rpc10
opa10
fastapi10
realtime10
subscribe10
cedar10
websocket10
open-policy-agent10
opal10
publish10
authorization10
microservices10
pubsub10
broadcast10
role-based-access-control10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
permitio/permit-java
Jan 2022 - Sep 2024
Java SDK for Permit.io: Plug & Play Application Level Authorization
Contributions:19 releases, 3 reviews, 27 PRs in 2 years 8 months
authorizationjavaaccess-controlpermissionssdk
permitio/opal
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Policy and data administration, distribution, and real-time updates on top of Policy Agents (OPA, Cedar, ...)
Contributions:27 releases, 114 reviews, 737 commits in 2 years 1 month
opaauthorizationpolicy-as-codepolicyrealtime
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