Raphael Fogel
Consultant at collectoora.com
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Fogel is a seasoned consultant and founder with 11+ years building media-rich web products, SaaS event platforms, and developer communities from Tel Aviv. He conceived and product-managed Confitoora, a Ruby on Rails SaaS that now powers hundreds of conference sites, and has repeatedly launched and run major Ruby and OSS events including DevconTLV and Rails Israel. His background ranges from founding tech journalism outlets (TheMarker IT, PC Plus/PC Gamer Israel) to pioneering semantic search work and bespoke CMS/CRM solutions, blending editorial savvy with hands-on engineering. Raphael moves fluidly between product strategy, event programming, and technical delivery, and is known for turning conference concepts into scalable, repeatable platforms. Notably, he combines a publisher’s instinct for audience engagement with deep practical experience deploying Rails apps on platforms like Heroku.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Gordon Tel Aviv
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (5)
ruby9
rails8
ruby-on-rails8
sidekiq6
jruby3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
filtercake/code4wd-experiments
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 3 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 months
fogelmania/ruby-conferences.github.io
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 months
ruby-on-railsruby-conferencesrailsrubyconferences
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