Ashoat Tevosyan is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building scalable, user-focused systems and leading teams at companies from Facebook to OpenAI. He founded Comm, an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform that emphasizes private servers and community-first design, and has deep product + engineering chops from managing Public Conversations and comment-ranking efforts at Facebook. A long-time open-source contributor, Ashoat has improved critical front-end tooling—contributing navigation and Flow type definitions to the widely used react-navigation and flow-typed projects—demonstrating attention to UX details like animation and header/tab behavior. He began building web services as a teen (founding the nonprofit Helio Networks) and brings that entrepreneurial, infrastructure-minded perspective to modern privacy and real-time app challenges. Based in New York, he combines hands-on coding with product leadership and a proven ability to move complex systems from prototype to production.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Washington
Contributions:3 reviews, 46 commits, 47 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ashoat introduced and maintained React Navigation library definition files. They added and updated the types for various actions, navigators, and configurations within the library. The user's commits focused on ensuring the accuracy of the type definitions for React Navigation v1, v2, and v3, including enhancements such as typed `getParam` and correct argument orders.
Routing and navigation for React Native and Web apps
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 93 commits, 55 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ashoat primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the React Native navigation library. Their work involved fixing flow errors, removing obsolete code references, and addressing issues related to the bottom tab bar and header positioning. They demonstrated a strong understanding of component structure and animation, as evidenced by their involvement in animating changes to the tab bar visibility and relatively positioning the header. These changes improve user experience and maintainability of the library.
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