Snir Segal
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Israel
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SeniorSnir Segal is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Israel with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable, full-stack web and cloud systems. He has progressed from senior developer to technical lead and manager at Palo Alto Networks, driving Cortex XDR and analytics initiatives and shipping production-ready services under pressure. Equally comfortable in backend and frontend stacks, he has architected high-availability APIs and performance-optimized search features for high-traffic sites and led teams delivering end-to-end solutions. A pragmatic problem solver and fast self-learner, Snir combines attention to detail with a proven ability to take projects from concept to production. He contributes to notable open-source work—enhancing class-transformer’s JsonView decorators—demonstrating a knack for thoughtful, maintainable refactors that improve async handling and test coverage. Colleagues rely on him for technical leadership that balances delivery, quality, and scalability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (13)
decorators10
typescript10
typescripts10
decorator10
transformation10
typescript-types10
testing9
javascript8
instagram-api6
google-api6
instagram6
google-apps6
google-calendar-api6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
typestack/class-transformer
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
Decorator-based transformation, serialization, and deserialization between objects and classes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Snir primarily contributed to the `class-transformer` library, focusing on enhancing the `JsonView` functionality. They implemented a decorator to selectively expose object properties, added testing, simplified and fixed promise handling, and refactored the code for improved readability and maintainability. This involved modifications to the decorator logic to support promises and refactoring related to naming conventions.
transformationdeserializationserializationdecoratorexposing-properties
snirs90/node-resty
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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