Galia Kaufman
Mobile Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGalia Kaufman is a seasoned mobile software engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building and leading iOS teams at companies such as Google, Tory Burch, and GrubHub. She combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, having served as a team lead and senior engineer across consumer-facing and retail mobile products. Her background spans full-stack and web work earlier in her career, and she brings a pragmatic product mindset from roles that ranged from startups to large enterprises. An accessibility-focused open-source contributor, she has improved screen-reader support in the widely used material-components-ios library, demonstrating attention to inclusive UX on top of solid technical chops. Trained in computer science and psychology, she blends technical depth with user-centered thinking to deliver polished mobile experiences.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science & Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science & Psychology at Bar-Ilan UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Mamram School
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (6)
accessibility10
material-design10
swift10
ios10
ui-design9
objective-c8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
material-components/material-components-ios
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
[In maintenance mode] Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for iOS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 3 reviews, 277 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Galia primarily focused on implementing and testing accessibility features within the iOS Material Components library. They made several commits related to ensuring UI elements, specifically Chips and Cards, function correctly with screen readers. Their work involved updating accessibility traits and labels, and adding documentation, as well as creating specific examples to demonstrate accessibility features in action. The user's work centered on improving the user experience for users with disabilities.
objective-cmaterial-componentsmaterialmaintenance-modecustomizable
galiak11/material-components-ios
Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for iOS
Contributions:5 PRs, 680 pushes, 236 branches in 2 years
materialcustomizableiosmaterial-designmodular
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