Tal Ater
Co-Founder at Delicious Experiences
United States
Summary
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RockstarTal Ater is a serial founder and technical leader with 13 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and shipping widely used web technologies. As co-founder and CTO of multiple ventures and an author (Building Progressive Web Apps, O'Reilly), he blends hands-on front‑end and back‑end engineering with product, UX, and go‑to‑market strategy. He has driven open standards work as a W3C invited expert and contributed security improvements to flagship projects like OpenZeppelin Contracts while also creating popular libraries such as annyang and UpUp that power speech recognition and offline web experiences. Tal’s work has been embedded in high‑traffic sites and referenced by major media outlets, reflecting both technical depth and public impact. He often splits time between building startups, running open source projects used by millions, and designing remote team experiences that bring people together. Practical, security-minded, and product-oriented, he thrives at the intersection of code, design, and business.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
solidity10
back-end-development10
progressive-web-apps10
css10
evm10
offline-web-app10
offline-app10
security10
service-worker10
ethereum10
pwapp10
html10
smart-contracts10
speech-recognition10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
TalAter/UpUp
Mar 2015 - Jan 2021
✈️ Easily create sites that work offline as well as online
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 244 commits, 54 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tal primarily contributed to the front-end development of the "upup" project, focusing on making websites work offline using service workers. Their work involved setting up the development environment using Grunt, adding and modifying the HTML, CSS and JavaScript code for the demo site. The user also refactored and streamlined code and created assets to be cached for offline use.
javascriptservice-workerpwasitesoffline
TalAter/annyang
Aug 2013 - Aug 2022
💬 Speech recognition for your site
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 538 commits, 92 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tal appears to be focused on developing and improving the front-end of the project. They added the basic structure for a new JavaScript file, "voxcom.js", and created a minified version, "voxcom.min.js". The commits show the user implementing browser support checks, configuring webkitSpeechRecognition, fleshing out the results and adding an init method to the object.
balloonspeech-to-textrecognitionspeech-balloonspeech-recognition
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