Daniel Trugman
Co-founder And CTO at Requesty
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Trugman is a founder and technology leader with nine years of professional experience building secure, high-performance systems across startups and large enterprises. As Co-founder and CTO of Requesty in London, he blends product vision with hands-on engineering, drawing on prior tech-lead roles at TikTok, Amazon and Palo Alto Networks where he focused on security and data access at scale. His background spans embedded and electronic warfare systems in the Israeli Air Force through to cloud-native security and endpoint engineering, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective from low-level systems to distributed services. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved backend integrations for the notable cline autonomous coding-agent project, adding dynamic model selection, cost calculations and robust provider handling. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and pairs entrepreneurial drive with a pragmatic, security-first approach to product architecture.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, YaffoMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Reichman UniversityPractical Engineer Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Practical Engineer Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Amal Bet Petah-Tikva
Hebrew, English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
apim10
typescript10
javascript10
openai-api10
typescripts10
api10
typescript-types10
linker9
python9
nodejs9
elf9
vim6
linux6
unique-ptr6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cline/cline
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the Requesty provider within the Cline project, implementing features such as adding headers, supporting cache read/write tokens, and integrating cost calculations. They also made improvements to OpenAI and DeepSeek providers, including cost calculation and bug fixes for stream handling. Furthermore, the user worked on dynamic model selection for Requesty, enhancing the user's model selection capabilities.
dtrugman/shplug
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 releases, 20 commits, 25 pushes in 1 year
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