Avital Baral
Senior Software Engineer at Renew Home
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAvital Baral is a Senior Software Engineer and MIT-trained computer scientist with 11 years of experience building data and backend systems for climate tech and political technology. Currently driving data engineering and research-production pipelines at Renew Home after architecting scalable data APIs, forecasting layers, and experiment platforms for grid-scale battery management at Equilibrium Energy. Previously built high-throughput GraphQL analytics and ETL pipelines for ActBlue and delivered voter modeling and campaign analytics for the Texas Democratic Party, blending strong backend, Spark/Databricks, dbt, Airflow/Temporal, and AWS expertise. She has a distinctive cross-domain background in urban planning and technology policy, a sustained interest in geographic and civic data, and hands-on open-source contributions to tools like Microsoft's Node.js Tools for Visual Studio. Colleagues rely on her to productionalize research code, mentor hires, and turn complex civic and energy datasets into reliable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Engineering Computer Science, Master's of Engineering Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
nodejs10
code-snippets10
javascript10
mochajs9
visual-studio-extension8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/nodejstools
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 27 days
Contributions summary:Avital's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio project. They added support for code snippets, including adding new snippets for JavaScript and Mocha unit tests, modifying the project's setup to include the new snippets, and ensuring they were correctly copied to the output directory. Further contributions included minor formatting and whitespace cleanup throughout the project.
node-jsnodejsjs-toolsvisual-studio
avitalb/nodejstools
Jul 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:50 pushes, 4 branches, 2 issues in 1 year 1 month
node-jsnodejsjs-toolsvisual-studio
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