Rafi Benkual
Product Design Technologist At Doximity
Campbell, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafi Benkual is a product design technologist with 12 years of experience building pixel-precise, high-performance front-end experiences and internal tooling, currently contributing to the Apple Watch web efforts at Doximity. He combines a strong design sensibility with hands-on frontend engineering—Vue, JavaScript, SCSS and responsive HTML email—shipped across 30+ client and company projects and five recent launches. A long-time contributor and advocate for ZURB Foundation, Rafi has worked directly on foundational open-source repos (foundation-sites and inky), improving UI components and accessibility while carefully managing regressions. His background includes creating developer training, documentation, and dozens of tutorial videos, which reflects a knack for mentoring and community-building beyond pure coding. Based in Campbell, CA, he brings a pragmatic balance of product-minded design, code quality, and measurable business impact from earlier e-commerce and retail leadership roles.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
De Anza CollegeColumbia College, California
Hebrew, spanish (some)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
html10
accessibility10
css10
javascript10
foundation-sites10
ui-components10
zurb-foundation9
ux-design8
ui-design8
sass6
horizon6
nodejs6
webpack6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
foundation/inky
Mar 2016 - Mar 2020
An email framework that converts simple HTML into responsive email-ready HTML.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 19 commits, 15 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Rafi's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating the UI components within the `inky` repository. They focused on improving the `float-center` class application for various elements like buttons and menus. Additionally, the user updated the codebase to fix issues and added an `expanded` class for elements. This work included changes to both component factory logic and corresponding tests, showing a clear focus on UI/UX refinement.
e-mailresponsive-emailemailemail-marketing
foundation/foundation-sites
Nov 2013 - Jul 2019
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Quickly create prototypes and production code for sites that work on any kind of device.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 430 commits, 273 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rafi primarily focused on reverting changes related to UI/UX and accessibility improvements within the Foundation Sites framework. These changes involved modifying various components and documentation pages to revert the accessibility improvements for Reveal modals and make layouts that were causing issues in the kitchen sink example. The user also reverted changes to Orbit, Icon Bar, and Joyride components, indicating a focus on maintaining the existing functionality and fixing the side effects of the changes.
frontend
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