Surafel Defar
Founder at Revoldiv
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorSurafel Defar is a San Francisco Bay Area software entrepreneur and founder with a decade of hands-on experience building web and AI-enabled products. He has led engineering efforts at Apple and multiple startups, then founded Revoldiv to create an AI-driven social platform for podcasting and video sharing. His background spans full-stack SaaS, secure financial integrations, and call analytics—skills honed while building tax and CRM systems that handled sensitive payments and fraud mitigation. Comfortable shipping production systems and prototypes alike, he blends product intuition with deep implementation experience dating back to his teens. Notably, he repeatedly launches ventures rather than staying in a single role, demonstrating a persistent builder’s mentality and appetite for new product challenges. Visit surafel.com to see his current work and projects.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (109)
xmlhttprequest10
ui-components10
material-ui10
http-client10
language-design10
pagination10
grouping10
datagrid10
javascript10
react-components10
browser10
filtering10
ajax10
typescript10
nodejs10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
usergit/reading-time
May 2016 - Aug 2016
A chrome extension that tells you how much time it takes to read a web page
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
takesjavascriptchromeweb-pagechrome-extension
usergit/fendisha.github.io
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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