Ash Arnwine
Founder at Random Tantrum LLC
Kyoto, Japan
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAsh Arnwine is a product-focused founder and operator with 11 years of experience shepherding early-stage and founder-led ventures through ambiguous 0→1 and reset phases. He combines developer experience and product judgment from senior roles at Adobe and Nylas with hands-on JavaScript hacking and front-end contributions to projects like Adobe XD plugin samples. Known for cutting through process to align teams on what truly matters, Ash excels at hiring strategy, UX connections, and pragmatic go-to-market thinking for technical products. Based in Kyoto, he now builds AI-enhanced experiences for vinyl collectors at Random Tantrum while advising startups through Muru, blending creative product instincts with disciplined follow-through. An organizer and teacher at heart, he brings a cross-cultural background and a talent for turning fuzzy problems into focused roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
ITP Summer Camp, ITP Summer Camp at New York UniversityFull-stack web development, Full-stack web development at Fullstack AcademyBachelor’s Degree Major in English and Spanish minor in Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree Major in English and Spanish minor in Psychology at Stephen F. Austin State University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
1,471reputation
66kreached
76answers
8questions
Github Skills (14)
uid10
javascript10
adobe10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
plugin10
extensibility9
html9
css7
ios6
adobe-xd6
android6
aviary6
image6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AdobeXD/plugin-samples
Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
Adobe XD Plugin API samples
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:312 commits, 42 PRs, 54 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ash primarily contributed to UI development and plugin functionality within the Adobe XD Plugin API context. Their work involved implementing interactive elements, managing user input, and integrating with the XD environment. The contributions include handling user interactions, displaying feedback, and providing the user with necessary guidance and information. The user also updated the code to align with the API changes and implemented essential functionalities like handling events and closing dialogs.
apiadobeapi-pluginuxpplugin
ashryanbeats/resize-app-icons
Sep 2016 - Jul 2018
A shell script for resizing a png for App Store icons with ImageMagick
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
a-shellapp-storeshell-scriptimagemagickpng
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.