Astro Ashtaralnakhai
Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAstro Ashtaralnakhai is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer tooling, currently contributing to LinkedIn’s mission to help people advance their careers. He has deep experience in data pipelines and service frameworks, with notable open-source contributions to LinkedIn’s rest.li framework (improving Gradle plugins, data template generation, and cross-platform path handling) and enhancements to the Appium .NET client that broaden device automation capabilities. Past roles span lead engineering at Zoosk and data-focused work at Leanplum, reflecting a blend of product-facing and infrastructure expertise. Based in San Francisco, he pairs systems-level thinking with practical engineering—tinkering across Java, .NET, and build tooling—and describes himself playfully as a “Ninja” in his open-source profile.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of California, DavisCalifornia State University, Sacramento
Github Skills (21)
selenium-webdriver10
net10
dotnet10
java10
asp-net10
javas10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
appium10
gradlew10
csharp10
gradle10
mobile-development9
spock9
test-automation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
appium/dotnet-client
Apr 2014 - Dec 2017
Extension to the official Selenium dotnet webdriver
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 108 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Astro primarily contributed to the .NET client library for Appium, adding and modifying core functionalities. They added constructors and commands to the AppiumDriver class, including methods to toggle airplane mode and manage device orientation. Furthermore, they implemented context endpoints and the ability to find elements by various selectors, improving the library's usability and feature set. They also addressed NuGet package and project file configurations.
dotnetbrowserstackselenium-webdrivercsharpwebdriver
linkedin/rest.li
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Astro primarily contributed to the `rest.li` framework by implementing and improving Gradle plugin functionality within the Java codebase. They focused on enhancing the build process through modifications to tasks, such as updating schema handling and integrating Spock testing. Key changes included optimizing the generation and compilation of data templates, and resolving a bug related to file path handling on MacOS systems. They also implemented changes to handle case sensitivity in the generation of file paths.
architecturesapiscalableasynchronousrestful
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