Benny Daon
Co-Founder & CEO at The Public Knowledge Workshop
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolBenny Daon is a veteran software engineer and serial founder with over 17 years of professional experience and more than four decades of programming practice, now leading Asimi as Co-Founder & CEO while advising startups through Tuzig. He blends hands‑on backend and test-automation expertise (Go, Python, TypeScript; Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL) with a deep commitment to software quality, eXtreme Programming, DORA metrics and developer satisfaction. Benny builds friction‑free development environments and bespoke test frameworks—he’s implemented docker-compose, pytest, Playwright and custom tooling—and actively hunts technical debt while mentoring teams. A long-time open-source contributor and co-founder of the influential Open-Knesset project, he has experience scaling volunteer-driven civic projects and steering product strategy for both startups and institutions. Known for turning operational and process challenges into measurable improvements, he pairs practical engineering with a knack for teaching and clear documentation.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA Humanities Computer sciense, BA Humanities Computer sciense at Tel Aviv Universitynon-academic Change leader for social & economic policy, non-academic Change leader for social & economic policy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (18)
apim10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
testing10
user-authentication10
authentication10
api10
social-authentication10
oauth10
git9
apidoc9
rest-api8
database-design8
api-rest8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ofri/Open-Knesset
Aug 2009 - Mar 2015
** The official repo is at https://github.com/hasadna/Open-Knesset/ . Please fork it, instead of my repo.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:881 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Benny's contributions focused on improving the back-end functionality and maintainability of the Open-Knesset project. They implemented a more robust connection between members and posts, improved test stability, and refactored the follower system to use actstream. The user also made improvements to the user profile, tests, and general code style, indicating a strong focus on code quality and performance.
my-repo
agiliq/Django-Socialauth
Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Allows logging in via Facebook, Yahoo, Gmail, Twitter and Openid
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Benny primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Django-based social authentication application. Their work involved bug fixes related to database interactions, adding features such as connecting social accounts and context processors, and integrating third-party services like Twitter and Facebook by updating authentication logic, and incorporating APIs. The user upgraded the project's dependencies and removed GPL-licensed code, demonstrating responsibility for maintaining the codebase.
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