Ziv Barber
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarZiv Barber is a versatile software engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, device drivers, Windows and Linux internals, video streaming, networking protocols and cross-platform GUI development. He began coding at age 10 (including ZX-81 assembly) and has since built deep expertise in C/C++, C#, Java, Assembly and web technologies, plus proven architectural and infrastructure design skills. Ziv has extensive experience developing development environments, testing and deployment tools, and is an expert user of wxWidgets and Visual Studio across many versions. He’s been trusted as an early-stage advisor on projects, led teams, hired and managed subcontractors, and even worked on software engineering projects in the U.S. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed backend work to the officegen project, implementing Office Open XML generation and PPTX streaming features. Known for pragmatic problem solving, thorough code comments and a breadth that spans low-level internals to high-level web and multimedia systems, he thrives on multi-platform challenges.
12 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (8)
xml10
javascript10
typescript6
webkit6
activeadmin6
angular6
cordova6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Ziv-Barber/officegen
Jun 2013 - Mar 2021
Standalone Office Open XML files (Microsoft Office 2007 and later) generator for Word (docx), PowerPoint (pptx) and Excell (xlsx) in javascript. The output is a stream.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 274 commits, 84 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ziv primarily contributed to the development of an Office Open XML files generator for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel in Javascript. Their contributions included implementing basic features and creating PPTX streams. The commits focused on generating different components of the presentation, including slide layouts, text elements, image placeholders, and incorporating features such as speaker notes.
xlsxxml-filespowerpointdocxmicrosoft-office
Ziv-Barber/fast-image-size
Jul 2013 - Aug 2016
Simple stand alone module to just extract the image size from image file without using special image libraries.
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 1 month
imagestand-alonestandimage-sizeimage-processing
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