Nir Bar
Freelance Senior C Developer at Panel::Software
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolNir Bar is a seasoned freelance Senior C/C++ developer and Technion-trained computer engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience across Linux, Windows and embedded systems. He specializes in high-concurrency, low-CPU-footprint software for DSP, SoC and real-time environments, pairing deep systems knowledge with pragmatic API and library design. Nir has led pre-silicon verification efforts using SystemVerilog and Perl, and his open-source contributions include enhancing the WiX Toolset’s burn engine to better handle MSI transactions and rollback boundaries. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and a small-team lead, he’s delivered projects ranging from medical analysis on Jetson Nano to cross-platform encryption and kiosk systems. Known for maintaining and modernizing legacy codebases, he thrives on optimizing performance where every CPU cycle matters.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer Engineering, Engineer, Computer Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyORT Bialik
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (6)
iswix10
c-language10
wix10
cprogramming-language10
xml9
build-automation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wixtoolset/wix
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
WiX Toolset Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 5 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Nir primarily contributed to the WiX Toolset's core functionality, focusing on the burn engine and related APIs. Their work included modifying code to support MSI transactions, including changes to the logging of rollback boundaries. Additionally, the user implemented features to manage and log rollback boundaries within the burn engine. These contributions appear to enhance the toolset's ability to manage installations and uninstalls.
toolsetwixwifiwix-toolset
nirbar/TidyBuild
Dec 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch, 14 tags in 5 years 5 months
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