Richard Akman
Head Of AI at Asael SEO LTD
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Akman is a product-focused Head of AI and software engineer who turns ambiguous ideas and emerging AI opportunities into production-ready systems. With five years of professional experience spanning full-stack development, systems architecture, and technical leadership, he combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic technical decisions and strong developer experience. He currently leads AI discovery and delivery at Asael SEO LTD, prioritizing high-leverage use cases, rapid prototyping, and scalable technical direction. Previously a CTO and R&D manager, he’s built products from scratch and hardened them for real users, and contributes to open-source ConfigOps tooling that integrates runtime environments across major cloud providers. Based in Tel Aviv and grounded in a computer science education, he brings an operator’s mindset—balancing rapid validation with long-term maintainability.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full stack java development Computer Programming, Full stack java development Computer Programming at John BryceBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Hebrew, English, Russian
Github Skills (18)
vercel10
netlify10
configuration-management10
azure-functions10
typescript10
appconfig10
typescript-types10
aws-ecs10
typescripts10
javascript9
kubernetes9
cicd9
kubernetes-pods9
json8
hashicorp-vault8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
configu/configu
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Open-source ConfigOps infrastructure ⚙️
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 releases, 394 reviews, 52 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed significantly to integrating runtime environments for various cloud providers, including Netlify, Vercel, GCP Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, and AWS ECS. They implemented features for managing environment variables across these platforms, and also added validation and error handling improvements within the core application configuration logic. The user refactored several store classes to utilize a `KeyValueStore` interface, enhancing the configuration management infrastructure.
configurationconfiguration-fileconfiguration-managementgenericconfig
configu/docs
Jan 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:29 reviews, 36 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 1 month
configuration-management
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