Tal Salmona
Engineering Lead, Co-Founder at arato.ai
South District, Israel
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Top SchoolTal Salmona is an engineering leader and serial founder with 14 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and leading multidisciplinary teams from early startups to Meta. As Co-Founder and Engineering Lead at arato.ai and former Engineering Manager at Meta, he led platforms for market research, survey tools, crowdsourcing, and financial integrity systems that detect and stop fraud. Tal combines hands-on architecture and implementation skills—having built real-time indexing, distributed crawling, and NLP-driven profiling systems—with a knack for turning ideas into production quickly. He has a proven record of scaling R&D organizations (VP/Director roles at Kenshoo) and shipping complex SaaS and cloud-native products. Based in South District, Israel, he pairs a mathematics and CS background with a practical appetite for self-learning and assembling teams that execute under ambiguity.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Mathematics and Computer Science, B.Sc Mathematics and Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Github Skills (53)
python10
mqtt10
garden10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
camera10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
home-assistant10
credit10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
credit-card9
scraper9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
talsalmona/hilan
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Hilan payslip downloader
Contributions:40 commits, 3 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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talsalmona/esp-sensors
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
DYI temperature and motion sensors for Home Assistant based on an esp8266, LM35 and HC-SR505
Contributions:10 PRs, 16 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
dyisensorsassistantmotionesp8266
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