Merlin Rabens
Co-Founder at Huklberry Media
Maó, Balearic Islands, Spain
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Top SchoolMerlin Rabens is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable systems and AI-driven products from backend services to customer-facing avatars. Based in Maó, Spain, he has led technical and operational roles—delivering AI agent projects, tripling client retention as a TPM/COO, and now launching AvatarFunnels to automate lead conversion with engaging AI video avatars. He combines hands-on engineering (Scala, Java, SRE, CI/CD) with product instincts honed at companies like letgo and Intent HQ, and has contributed QA tests to the notable IOTA reference implementation. Comfortable bridging client-facing strategy and deep technical delivery, Merlin often applies AI and analytics to boost efficiency and conversion in production systems. He brings an entrepreneurial, builder-first mindset and a rare mix of platform reliability experience and applied AI productization.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Expert, Subject Area: Software Development, IHK, Computer Science, Subject Area: Software Development, Computer Science Expert, Subject Area: Software Development, IHK, Computer Science, Subject Area: Software Development at Klara-Oppenheimer-Schule Würzburg
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Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
iotaledger-archive/iri
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
IOTA Reference Implementation
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 16 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Merlin primarily contributed by adding unit tests for the `TransactionValidator` class within the IOTA Reference Implementation. These tests cover various aspects of transaction validation, including byte and trit validation, and checks for solidity. Furthermore, the user implemented tests that verify transaction solidity based on branch and trunk data. The contributions focused on ensuring the integrity and functionality of transaction validation logic within the IOTA project.
iotareference-implementationiota-coreiota-javaiota-reference
bluedigits/iota-node
May 2017 - Dec 2018
Dockerized IOTA Full Node
Contributions:54 commits, 10 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 7 months
full-nodedockernodejsiotadockerized
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