Tal Liron
Generalissimo at Three Crickets
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTal Liron is a seasoned software engineer and independent technologist with over three decades of diverse professional experience and 17 years focused in software, currently leading Three Crickets and developing Khutulun, a Kubernetes-replacement informed by a decade of cloud lessons. He has held senior engineering roles at Google (Distributed Cloud) and Red Hat (Telco Solutions), favors Rust for serious systems work, and has meaningful open-source contributions including enhancements to the influential Restlet Java REST framework. Also a cultural anthropologist completing a PhD at the University of Chicago specializing in nationalism and Mongolian studies, Tal uniquely blends deep technical architecture skills with long-form academic research and community advocacy. He prefers contract collaboration aligned with his principles, contributes actively to free software communities, and is quietly shipping an indie narrative-action puzzle game inspired by an offbeat premise about disappearing turmeric.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Teaching Certificate Yoga, Teaching Certificate Yoga at yogaviewBA Anthropology, BA Anthropology at Amherst CollegePhD Anthropology, PhD Anthropology at University of Chicago
Hebrew, Mongolian, Chinese, Korean, Russian, English
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Github Skills (13)
application-framework10
javas10
app-framework10
web-framework10
rest-api10
scripting10
salesforce-rest-api10
java10
jruby9
groovy8
nginx6
php6
javascript6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
restlet/restlet-framework-java
Mar 2009 - Apr 2009
The first REST API framework for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 commits, 12 comments, 6 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tal primarily contributed to the Restlet framework by adding and modifying the script extension, including the development of features and libraries supporting scripting within Restlet applications. Their work involved integrating external libraries like Scripturian, Quercus, JRuby, and Groovy, enhancing the capabilities of the framework. They also fixed concurrency issues in example scripts and improved overall code quality and example application appearance.
restletapirestfulframeworkrest-api-framework
tliron/cnck
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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