Gal Koren
MSc Student at Bar-Ilan University
Petah Tikva, Center District, Israel
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Top SchoolGal Koren is a seasoned software engineer with eight years of professional experience and a deep background in backend architecture, having built high-scale systems and led major refactors to improve maintainability. He champions quality through TDD and CI practices and prioritizes developer culture and relationships as levers for successful delivery. His roles span from low-level performance optimization at Microsoft and embedded C++ systems to architecting cloud-native services and AI-based fraud detection at Riskified. Now pursuing an MSc while continuing to blend research-minded learning with practical engineering, he brings an architect’s perspective even in hands-on development. Notably, his career shows a pattern of improving teams’ coding experience as much as their codebases, reflecting a holistic approach to software craftsmanship.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computer and Software Engineering, B.Sc Computer and Software Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (41)
logic8
google-ads-api8
java8
business-logic8
persistence7
jooq7
batch7
mysql-client6
ads6
grpc6
database6
rpc6
jdbc6
api-client6
protobuf5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kenshoo/pl-intellij
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
IntelliJ Plugin for Persistence Layer
Contributions:21 reviews, 27 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 months
persistence-layerintellijintellij-pluginpersistence
kenshoo/pl-workshop-2
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
Persistence Layer workshop exercises
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 10 branches in 11 months
persistencepersistence-layerworkshoppublic-repo
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