Ward Abbass
Software Engineer at Google
Haifa District, Israel
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Top SchoolWard Abbass is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in native Android and React Native infrastructure, currently building at Google out of Haifa, Israel. He spent four years at Wix co-leading the popular open-source react-native-navigation project and shipping core mobile infra like native media solutions, startup optimizations, and CI tools. His contributions to the wix/react-native-navigation Android implementation include RTL fixes, modal/keyboard animation stability, and launch-argument handling—work that improved reliability for many production apps. Prior roles span Android client development for a media-focused startup and Java/Android engineering, grounded in Computer Engineering studies at Technion. Known for pragmatic performance work, he has also prototyped tooling like a Node.js test runner to speed developer feedback loops.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Final Stages., Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Final Stages., Computer Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
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java10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wix/react-native-navigation
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
A complete native navigation solution for React Native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:92 reviews, 280 commits, 91 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ward primarily contributed to the Android implementation of the React Native Navigation library. Their work focused on adding support for features like retrieving launch arguments, fixing issues with button merging, and addressing RTL (Right-to-Left) layout issues. They also worked on improving the library's overall stability and user experience by addressing crashes and fixing animation-related bugs, specifically related to modal animations and keyboard handling.
navigatorreactreact-native-navigationreact-nativenavigation
swabbass/WardRecycler
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 releases, 18 commits, 13 pushes in 8 months
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