Gal Niv
Staff Software Engineer at Coursera
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGal Niv is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of full‑stack experience building and scaling web products across startups and established companies, currently contributing at Coursera. He specializes in React and Next.js on the frontend and has a strong Node.js/postgres background from architecting backend systems and cloud services. As a founding engineer and later team lead at TrustCloud, he combined product-focused UX collaboration with engineering leadership to turn customer needs into shipped features. His career spans roles from research-level systems work at UMass Amherst to principal engineering at Progress, giving him rare depth across distributed systems, real-time services, and developer-facing APIs. Known for clear communication and attention to detail, he moves fluidly between IC work and team enablement, often bridging product, design, and customer-facing teams. Based in Greater Boston, he brings an engineer’s curiosity rooted in academic systems work together with startup pragmatism.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (74)
sanitize10
javascript10
validation10
sanitization10
validations10
driver10
validate10
linux9
js9
string-validation9
windows9
nodejs9
macos9
database8
recurring8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Kinvey/business-logic-testing-library
Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years
galniv/WordCloud
Aug 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 11 months
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