Gilad Peleg
Distinguished Engineer at Walmart
Givatayim, Israel
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Top SchoolGilad Peleg is a Distinguished Engineer with 12+ years of experience building and modernizing high-performance, full‑stack systems and leading teams to autonomous, high-velocity delivery. He combines hands-on expertise in distributed, low-latency backend systems and front-end migrations with strategic leadership—driving major initiatives like API gateways, PCI/TLS modernization, and multi‑team resilience projects that cut p95 latency and improved availability. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and an engineering leader, he stepped down from a director role to focus on cross-cutting technical impact and coaching peers on AI/LLM and systems design. An active open-source contributor, his work includes improvements to prominent JS projects such as TodoMVC and a JavaScript formatter, reflecting a long-standing appetite for pragmatic refactors and tooling. Based in Givatayim, Israel, he holds an MSc in Statistics and brings an analytical, evidence-driven approach—sharpening the axe before swinging to ensure durable, scalable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Statistics, Master’s Degree, Statistics at The Hebrew University of JerusalemBachelor's Degree, Economics and Business Mangement, Bachelor's Degree, Economics and Business Mangement at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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angularjs
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
testing10
mochajs10
moc10
backbonejs10
backbone10
collection-manager9
angularjs9
front-end-development9
regular-expression9
code-formatting9
refactoring9
management9
collections9
todomvc8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
tastejs/todomvc
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Helping you select a JavaScript framework - Todo apps for React.js, Angular, Vue and many more
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Gilad primarily contributed to the Backbone.js examples within the TodoMVC project, with a focus on refactoring and optimizing code. They addressed redundant filtering and improved readability within the Backbone collection and views. Furthermore, the user enhanced collection flow across various Backbone examples, improving efficiency. They extracted and renamed methods within an Ampersand.js implementation, showcasing refactoring efforts.
reactangular-jsreact-jsemberangular
rdio/jsfmt
May 2014 - Jun 2014
For formatting, searching, and rewriting JavaScript.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gilad primarily contributed to the JavaScript formatting project, adding testing capabilities and improving the codebase structure. They implemented mocha tests to validate rewrite and search functionalities. The user also refactored the project by moving core files and extracted shebang-related functions. Furthermore, the user optimized the code by converting the formatting process to use regex replace.
reactjavascriptrewritingsearchingformatting
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