Neil Kalman
Software Architect & DX Lead at kibibit
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolNeil Kalman is a software architect and developer experience (DX) lead with 11 years of experience focused on the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem, currently driving architecture and DX at Growthspace from Tel Aviv. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering with technical leadership, having guided teams at VMware and startups like Redkix (acquired by Facebook) while leading open-source DX work through kibibit. Neil is pragmatic about tooling and developer workflows—demonstrated by contributions that fix subtle front-end bugs (e.g., robust Gravatar handling in the popular ungit repo). His background in bioinformatics and early career in research and music education hint at a structured, analytical mindset paired with an ability to teach and mentor. Comfortable across product-stage companies and large engineering organizations, he focuses on making developer experiences reliable, testable, and delightful. Colleagues describe him as a systems thinker who turns nuanced UI and tooling pain points into durable engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv UniversityHigh School Physics Music, High School Physics Music at Katzenelson High School
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (18)
git10
javascript10
ui-design10
nodejs10
nestjs9
typescript9
css9
html9
seamless-immutable6
angular-material6
jestjs6
angular6
clean-architecture6
onion-architecture6
angularjs6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
FredrikNoren/ungit
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Neil's commits primarily focused on fixing a UI issue related to displaying user avatars in the `ungit` application. They addressed a problem where email casing affected the avatar display, making the solution robust to various email input formats by converting to lowercase. The user then refined the solution, iterating on the approach and eventually implementing the desired behavior consistently, while ensuring tests continued to pass. This involved modifying the Javascript code that calculates the gravatar image to handle different email cases.
version-controljavascriptlibgit2anywherenodejs
Kibibit/kibibit-cli
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:65 commits, 8 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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