Oren Zakay
Engineering Team Lead at Wix
Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolOren Zakay is an experienced mobile-first engineering leader with a decade of hands-on experience building Android and React Native products, now serving as Engineering Team Lead at Wix. He progressed from Java developer in the IDF to leading mobile tech at Wix, shipping features for products like Chosen.fm and Kin-Ecosystem and guiding the React Native mobile stack. A prolific open-source contributor, Oren has enhanced widely used projects such as Detox (improving Espresso-Web support) and react-native-ui-lib (web SVG and demo improvements), reflecting a knack for cross-platform testing and UI compatibility. He combines deep mobile engineering craftsmanship—rooted in self-driven projects dating back to building game servers in high school—with people leadership and a continual appetite for new tech like Kotlin, Node.js and React Native. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who still writes side projects to experiment with architectures and novel libraries.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of EngineeringPractical Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering, Practical Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering at ORT CollegesSecure Development In Java, Secure Development In Java at John Bryce
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Github Skills (30)
espresso10
e2e-testing10
javascript10
react-native10
mstest10
ui-components10
testing10
e2e-test10
testkit10
react-native-component10
teste10
automation10
component-kit10
android10
automations10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wix/react-native-ui-lib
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
UI Components Library for React Native
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Oren primarily focused on enhancing the web demo app within the React Native UI library. Their contributions included adding new UI components such as a button with SVG support, fixing SVG rendering issues, and addressing CSS styling within the web environment. They also worked on other UI-related improvements like updating documentation and modifying component examples. These changes centered around improving web compatibility and extending the library's functionality for web-based React Native development.
reactcomponents-libraryreact-nativeandroidios
wix/Detox
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Gray box end-to-end testing and automation framework for mobile apps
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 24 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
Contributions summary:Oren primarily contributed to the development of the Espresso-Web testing API within the Detox framework, as indicated by the commit messages and code changes. Their work involved creating and modifying files related to web element interactions, actions, and assertions within the Android testing environment. The contributions included defining new classes and methods for web element manipulation and testing, as well as integrating them into existing test files. These changes aim to enhance the testing capabilities of Detox for web-based content within mobile applications.
e2e-teststest-automationend-to-endboxend-to-end-testing
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