Gal Shafir
Co-founder & CEO at Fig Security
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGal Shafir is a cybersecurity-focused technology leader and founder with eight years of experience building and scaling security teams from startup to Google Cloud. After an IDF background in cyber and leadership training, he led global sales engineering at Siemplify through its acquisition and later headed Google Cloud Security's global SecOps architects. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing Dialogflow client samples and cloud SDK examples across Node.js, Python and Java—with strategic pre-sales and operational best practices. Now as Co-founder & CEO of Fig Security, he applies a rare mix of field-facing sales engineering, developer-oriented docs, and cloud-native implementation experience. Based in Seattle, he pairs negotiation training from Harvard Business School with practical DevOps and testing chops to translate product, security, and customer needs into scalable programs.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Commanding and Leadership certification, Commanding and Leadership certification at Military Academy for Computer Science and Cyber Defence (IDF)Negotiation Mastery, Negotiation Mastery at Harvard Business SchoolConfiguring Managing & Troubleshooting MS Exchange Server 2010, Configuring Managing & Troubleshooting MS Exchange Server 2010 at John Bryce
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
google-cloud-platform10
pytest10
python10
apidoc10
webhooks10
sample-size10
machine-learning10
google-cloud-functions10
java10
gcp10
sample-rate10
javas10
api10
sample-data10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/python-dialogflow
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Python client for Dialogflow: Design and integrate a conversational user interface into your applications and devices.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gal primarily contributed to the Python client for Dialogflow, focusing on adding and updating code samples for the Dialogflow API. Their work involved implementing new features like updating intents, adding webhook functionality, and integrating Google Cloud Storage files. The user also addressed build and linting issues, demonstrating a focus on code quality and ensuring the samples function correctly. Furthermore, the user provided documentation and region tags for the samples.
user-interfacepythonconversationalconversational-aiconversation
googleapis/nodejs-dialogflow
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
This repository is deprecated. All of its content and history has been moved to googleapis/google-cloud-node.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gal contributed to the Dialogflow Node.js client library by adding code samples and documentation. Their work includes examples for updating intents, setting agents, and integrating webhooks. They also added region tags to the samples.
js-clientuser-interfacegoogle-apiconversationalnode-js
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