Gil Tayar
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Israel
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Top SchoolGil Tayar is a Principal Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems and developer tools, currently driving engineering excellence at Microsoft from Israel. He has repeatedly designed and shipped high-throughput cloud infrastructure—most notably Applitools’ Visual Grid and the backend for Wix’s serverless Velo—blending Kubernetes, Docker, Node.js, Scala and microservices to solve hard scaling problems. A hands-on architect and team builder, he has led and grown cross-functional web teams, taught front-end bootcamps, and co-founded products that moved from prototype to SaaS. Gil is an active open-source contributor who improved Mocha’s ECMAScript Module support, demonstrating a commitment to modern JavaScript ecosystems beyond his day job. Comfortable from DOS-era assembly to contemporary cloud-native stacks, he pairs deep technical breadth with a track record of operationalizing research-grade ideas into production systems.
15 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Math and Computer Science, Bsc Math and Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
Hebrew, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
testing10
test-framework10
mochajs10
esmodules10
nodejs10
test-automation10
mstest9
teste9
testing-library9
ui-testing9
html6
internet-explorer6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mochajs/mocha
Sep 2019 - Jan 2022
☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gil focused on enhancing the Mocha.js testing framework's support for ECMAScript Modules (ESM). They enabled ESM support in Node.js versions, added file location information for syntax errors in ESM, and implemented import-first loading of test files. Additionally, they addressed issues with module resolution and corrected errors related to module not found, solidifying Mocha's compatibility with modern JavaScript module systems.
test-automationbrowsernode-jstestingjavascript
giltayar/babel-register-esm
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Node.js ESM loader similar to babel-register
Contributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 7 months
babelsimilarnode-jsjavascriptesm
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