Ash Brener
CTO at Starkeys
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolAsh Brener is a veteran technology leader and serial founder with 13 years of experience building telecommunications and connected-services platforms from South Africa’s Western Cape. As CTO of Starlogik and VP Engineering at Starkeys, he blends R&D-driven architecture with product-focused execution to solve technical challenges at immense scale and “connect the unconnected.” He co-founded multiple startups—including frisB.com and Airgames—and has steered product and IP strategy around nano IP switching and WebRTC, plus mobile and P2P systems dating back to the KaZaa era. Hands-on in the codebase, Ash has contributed to notable open-source UI work (riot.js), adding modularization and class mixin support to the compiler. He’s comfortable spanning embedded telecoms, real-time media, and front-end component engineering, and is known for turning research-grade ideas into commercially viable platforms.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Macquarie University
English, Hebrew, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (17)
application-framework10
javascript10
clientside10
app-framework10
web-components10
web-framework10
custom-element10
amd9
commonjs9
modularization9
iis6
almond6
azure6
aurelia6
aggregation-framework6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
riot/riot
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
Simple and elegant component-based UI library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 8 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ash contributed to the core functionality of the Riot library's compiler, introducing support for AMD and CommonJS modularization. They refactored the compiler to utilize the Modularize NPM module. Further contributions involved modifying the multi-line header for Travis builds and removing console debug statements. The user also added support for class mixins, demonstrating a focus on component-based UI development.
customtagsreactcomponent-basedclient-sidejavascript
frisb/fdboost
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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