Gazal Gafoor
Staff Engineer at REA Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolGazal Gafoor is a Staff Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience modernizing large-scale retail and consumer platforms through cloud-native, event-driven architectures and DevSecOps practices. She has progressed from hands-on developer roles to technical leadership at REA Group and Target Australia, driving migrations to AWS, Kubernetes, and serverless patterns while improving observability and security. Gazal blends front-end expertise—contributing to the popular dc.js visualization library—with back-end and architecture work, making her comfortable across the full stack. Known for turning legacy batch systems into realtime pipelines, she pairs pragmatic delivery with a continuous-learning mindset and a history of practical open-source contributions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 75%, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 75% at Mahatma Gandhi UniversityMathematics and Computer Science, 88%, Mathematics and Computer Science, 88% at Bhavans Varuna Vidyalaya
English, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
232reputation
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3answers
5questions
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
visualization10
d3js10
visualizations10
charting10
testing10
spring-data6
openam6
querydsl6
spring-security6
cookie6
spring-mvc6
spring-data-jpa6
spring6
spring-data-rest6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dc-js/dc.js
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Multi-Dimensional charting built to work natively with crossfilter rendered with d3.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 8 PRs, 27 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gazal primarily contributed to the `dc.js` library, focusing on enhancements to charting functionalities. Their work included adding features like aligning y-axes in composite charts and implementing label rendering for line charts. They also made lint fixes and incorporated elasticY for testing purposes. The user demonstrated expertise in modifying and testing the visualization components using JavaScript and related tools.
visualizationchartsmulti-dimensionalchartcharting
gazal-k/spring-security-data
Feb 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 5 years 9 months
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