Jayen Ashar
Sharetribe Expert at Arys Capital
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJayen Ashar is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on engineer with 15+ years delivering web, cloud and embedded systems across startups, government and enterprise clients. Currently a Sharetribe Expert and Toptal/Upwork/Arc-vetted developer based in Sydney, he builds rapid marketplace MVPs, then architects custom scaling solutions and integrations. He’s led CTO initiatives and serverless architectures—designing single-table DynamoDB patterns and microservices for low-latency video and event platforms—while also rescuing troubled projects and mentoring engineering teams. An active contributor to open-source UI tooling, he has improved tooltip rendering in the widely used intro.js library, showing attention to UX edge cases like dynamic font loading. Jayen combines academic depth (CMU and UNSW AI/Robotics background) with practical product instincts from founding multiple startups and running a software agency. He’s particularly effective at turning validated no-code experiments into production-grade systems with minimal migration overhead.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BHSCertificate IV, Training and Assessment, Certificate IV, Training and Assessment at Fortress LearningBachelor's, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Foreign Languages, Bachelor's, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Foreign Languages at Carnegie Mellon UniversityUNSW Sydney
English, Kutchi, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
ux-design10
html9
css9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
usablica/intro.js
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Lightweight, user-friendly onboarding tour library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jayen primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and ensuring proper rendering of tooltip elements within the intro.js library. Their work involved addressing layout issues, particularly concerning the positioning of tooltips, especially when dealing with dynamic content like font loading. They made several code changes, including adjustments to the minified version of the library, to resolve these positioning problems and maintain the intended visual presentation of the tooltips. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user experience by refining the presentation of the tutorial elements.
jsreactonboardingminifyjavascript
UNSWComputing/rUNSWift-docs
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
rUNSWift docs
Contributions:25 reviews, 50 commits, 36 PRs in 3 years 3 months
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