David Asabina
Associate Partner
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Asabina is an Associate Partner at Philipps & Byrne in Berlin with 14 years of hands-on experience building hardware, embedded systems, industrial power/climatetech, AI and web platforms while running startups and engineering consultancies. He leads deep-tech technical due diligence for investors and buyers, assembling expert networks and shaping analysis tooling that leverages LLMs and automation to scale assessments. As a founder-engineer he still ships firmware, platforms and interim-CTO work through Asabina GmbH, blending product-minded engineering with pragmatic team leadership. An active open-source contributor, his work ranges from improving FullCalendar’s UI tests to implementing a Nix lexer in Rouge and containerizing tooling for Jekyll, underscoring an appetite for developer tooling and reproducible environments. He pairs broad systems fluency with a knack for diving into technical detail—often surfacing subtle engineering risks others miss.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng) Electrical Engineering at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch, German, creoles and pidgins, english-based
Stackoverflow
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25kreached
6answers
2questions
Github Skills (36)
fullcalendar10
javascript10
docker10
event-handling10
lexer10
nix10
scripting10
calendars10
testing10
ui-design10
regex10
dockers10
ruby10
uid10
automation10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
github/pages-gem
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily focused on automating the build and deployment process for the GitHub Pages gem. They integrated Docker to create a containerized environment for testing and building, and updated the shell scripts to streamline the usage of the gem. These changes enhanced the development workflow and simplified the process of setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment. Furthermore, the user improved the functionality of the helper script for improved integration.
dependenciesruby-gemsettingsyncjekyll-plugin
rouge-ruby/rouge
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:David primarily worked on implementing a lexer for the Nix expression language within the Rouge-Ruby project. Their contributions involved defining the lexer's states for handling various language elements, including numbers, booleans, strings, comments, bindings, and keywords. They expanded the lexer to include operators, assignments, delimiters, and parenthesis, effectively covering most of the Nix language syntax. Furthermore, they also extended it to cover reserved keywords, paths, and lists.
pure-rubyrubyhighlightercode-highlighterpygments
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