Assaf
☝️ Cranking out projects like there’s no tomorrow.
Founder, CEO at Rentail
Career: 12
Founder, CEO
Rentail
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Mar 2025 - Present
Founder, CEO
Rentail
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
While e-commerce threatens to empty shopping centers, we're filling them back up—using AI to match the right merchants with the right spaces faster than any human broker ever could. At Rentail, our conversational AI doesn't just find tenants; it curates retail ecosystems that drive foot traffic and maximize ROI for property owners.
CTO
Overdryve Solutions, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
CTO
Overdryve Solutions, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
Using AI to power auto shops.
Freelance
Freelance
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
Freelance
Freelance
Helping startups on a variety of products in different domains.
Board Member
Broadly
Product and Platform
Demand Science
Chief Technology Officer
Broadly
Oakland CA
Engineering manager
Demandforce
Oct 2011 - Aug 2013
Engineering manager
Demandforce
Led the team working on the consumer facing side of the product and quadrupled key metrics.
Lead Engineer
Flowtown
Jul 2010 - Oct 2011
Lead Engineer
Flowtown
Got in when small team was working on a product that wasn't fully reliable, got to fix all these glaring issues, and ended getting acquired by Demandforce.
Committer
Apache Software Foundation
1999 - Oct 2011
Committer
Apache Software Foundation
Founding member of XML Apache (alongside IBM and Sun), Ode and Buildr.
Making stuff happen
880river
Jul 2009 - 2010
Making stuff happen
880river
880river is about connecting people under the same address. Services we run include Apartly and Yaketee.
CTO
Intalio
Aug 1999 - Jul 2009
CTO
Intalio
Founded this company just before the big .com crash and yet it's still alive and selling products to this day. We focused a lot on open-source and enterprise capabilities (J2EE, BPM, the works). How cool is it to find out that one of your projects is being used by NASA for the Mars rover?
Author
Manning Publications
2007 - Mar 2009
Author
Manning Publications
Co-author of Ruby in Practice (with Jeremy McAnally): http://manning.com/mcanally/
Skills: 35
Technical
Other
Projects: 3
Inbox
inbox.labnotes.org
Aug 2026 - Present
Inbox
inbox.labnotes.org
Cleans USPS Informed Delivery digests via Fastmail JMAP push.
Expense
expense.labnotes.org
Jul 2026 - Present
Expense
expense.labnotes.org
Your receipts, all collected to prepare for tax season. Expense does that for you: take a picture of it, drop a screenshot or a receipt email. OCR recognizes the merchant and amount and puts the spend into the correct category of a Schedule C form and a report of your choice. And when tax season comes, all is ready.
Rentail
rentail.space
Mar 2025 - Present
Rentail
rentail.space
Find short-term retail spaces in shopping centers—without the broker meetings or endless phone calls. Built for small businesses and seasonal sellers. Just instant matches with spaces ready for your products.
Publications: 2
Amazon
Manning
Languages: 1
- English(Native or bilingual)
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