Asaf is the CTO and co-founder of Permit.io, and co-maintainer and author of open source OPAL.ac. Before he started Permit, Asaf worked on internal developer tools as well as FBLite server infrastructure at Facebook (now Meta). He also worked at Claroty as one of the first engineers in the company, and at Microsoft, where he worked on the Xbox recommendation system. Prior to that Asaf served at the 81 elite cyber unit of the IDF. Asaf holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, from Bar-Ilan University. His thesis in cryptography is used as one of the privacy foundations in Apple’s child safety system.