Ala Hino
Engineering Team Lead at Gong
Julis, North District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAla Hino is an engineering team lead with over a decade of experience designing and delivering backend systems and scalable infrastructure across global teams in Israel, the US, UK and India. Skilled in Java/JEE, Spring, Hibernate and middleware including WebSphere and WebLogic, she combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership to modernize legacy systems and build next-generation products. At Gong she progressed from senior engineer to team lead, and previously drove key features and migrations at Cisco and Red Hat, often leading cross-site initiatives and training programs. An active contributor to open-source testing efforts, she improved and expanded test suites for the notable oVirt/vdsm virtual desktop project, emphasizing maintainability and clearer failure isolation. Ala pairs strong analytical problem-solving with clear communication and an MBA-backed business perspective that helps align technical work to product impact. Colleagues describe her as a rapid learner who focuses on teams that continuously improve rather than rest on past successes.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSC, Computer Science, BSC, Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at IDC
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
ovirt9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/vdsm
Feb 2015 - Sep 2018
The Virtual Desktop Server Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:208 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ala primarily contributed to the test suite, enhancing existing unit tests within the `ovirt/vdsm` repository. The user refactored and improved the readability of existing tests, replacing templating mechanisms and introducing the use of permutations for separating test failures. The user also added new tests for mount connection classes and corrected test documentation. Further contributions involved adding and modifying test cases, which supports a core function in the project.
server-managervirtual-desktopovirt
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