Steve Galili
Lead Frontend Software Engineer at MyWheels
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Galili is a lead frontend engineer and hands-on technology leader based in the Netherlands with 9+ years building scalable consumer and B2B products. He combines deep React Native expertise—evidenced by contributions to Stream’s popular stream-chat-react-native SDK and leading React Native teams—with product-minded UX and DevX sensibilities that improved MyWheels’ app rating from 1.8 to 4.7. As a founder and former CTO he shipped an AI-driven recruiting automation platform and knows how to turn repetitive LLM tasks into usable workflows. He’s delivered large mobile migrations and performance wins (Expo migration cutting weekly build times from hours to minutes) while stabilizing and growing engineering teams through hiring, process design, and near-shore strategy. Comfortable across full-stack stacks and infrastructure, he pairs pragmatic architecture with a penchant for improving developer experience and user conversion. Notably, he also contributed Hebrew translations and UI/UX fixes to open-source React Native chat components, reflecting attention to internationalization and polish.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Test React Applications, Test React Applications at Testing JavascriptSpring Framework Master Class - Beginner to Expert, Spring Framework Master Class - Beginner to Expert at Udemy AcademyVWO, Computers science and Chemistry, VWO, Computers science and Chemistry at Leo Baeck Education CenterIDF Officers SchoolComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Codaisseur
Hebrew, Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (10)
uid10
javascript10
react-native10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescripts8
localization8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
GetStream/stream-chat-react-native
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
💬 React-Native Chat SDK ➜ Stream Chat. Includes a tutorial on building your own chat app experience using React-Native, React-Navigation and Stream
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:243 reviews, 179 commits, 272 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the React Native frontend of the Stream Chat React Native SDK. Their work included fixing broken links within the documentation and making changes to UI components like the Giphy selector and scroll-to-bottom button, and file and image upload components. They also addressed build issues in the sample app and enhanced theming support, indicating a focus on UI/UX and maintaining the project's usability. Furthermore, the user added hebrew translations.
streamnavigationstream-chatreact-native-navigationchat-sdk
vanGalilea/react-native-testing
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
This is how you should test your react-native components with Jest and React Native Testing Library
Contributions:5 releases, 20 commits, 58 PRs in 2 years 7 months
reactreact-native-testingjestreact-nativetesting
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