About Me

I'm a dedicated, quality-focused professional with a strong sense of responsibility, team spirit and good human skills.

  • Active in the open source community.
  • Broad system view with the ability to drill down to the fine details.
  • Fast learning curve, adapting and embracing new technologies.

Work

Founder, CEO & CTO @ Freedom

  • Indie hacker and a solopreneur, building multiple stuff

  • https://subwatch.co - Turn subscription chaos into financial harmony πŸ’°

  • https://convertedge.co - Shorten & enrich any form! Boost conversion of any page πŸš€

  • https://learngit.dev - Commit to Success: Mastering Git & GitHub in the CS world πŸ’»

Lead Software Engineer (Team Leader) @ Cognyte (formerly a Verint company)

  • WebintPro LTD was acquired by Cognyte (formerly a Verint company).

  • Write a compelete data pipeline using RabbitMQ message broker.

  • Rewrite the backend microservices from Express.js to NestJS.

  • Build a CI/CD for an Electron desktop application using GitHub actions and GCP.

Lead Software Engineer (Team Leader) @ WebintPro Ltd

  • Formed a team (4 full stack developers) to develop and maintains a system to fetch, analyze, and save big data from social networks.

  • The backend services was written in Python with Sanic framework and Node.js with Express.js framework.

  • The frontend dashboard was written in Angular using ngrx, material, and D3.js.

  • Using Docker & Kubernetes for deployment on Google Cloud Platform, with a compelete CI/CD (tests, code reviews, dev environment, etc).

  • Implements a Microservices architecture with Pub/Sub.

  • Using Deep Learning methodologies to extract and analyze data. And save it in MongoDB, and Redis Databases.

  • Created the project from scratch, build the team, manage it, doing code reviews, etc.

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Gizra - Internet Solutions

  • Developing a system to connect between companies on varies projects, tracking, and managing them, for the European Union.

  • The Frontend is build with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JS, and jQuery. Backend written with Drupal in PHP and MySQL Database.

  • Working with Git on GitHub, doing code reviews, and writing tests with Behat (runs on Travis-CI).

  • Builds a Docker image for the system, and integrate continuous deployment methods.

Lead Software Engineer, Volunteer @ The Public Knowledge Workshop

  • Take part in Hackita02 program and one of the founders of "Ways Of Time" project that enable the National Library of Israel to upload and geotag their geographic maps collection, and open them to the public (Python, Django, Leaflet, PostGIS, MDL).

  • Lead developer of version 2.x of the "Open Pension" project. The project mission is to reveal what happens behind the Israeli pension market, while enabling the public to trace the money and expose corruption (Python, Django, Scrapy, PostgreSQL, Angular, ngrx, d3.js).

  • Ways Of Time Repo | Open Pension Website Repo | Open Pension Crawler Repo

Full Stack Software Engineer @ Restart Group - IT | WEB | Mobile | People

  • Part of a team that develops and maintains a financial system, from end to end, that handles thousands of transactions to offshore bank accounts.

  • Implement a new Front-end design built with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JS and jQuery.

  • Back-end written in PHP, and DB in MySQL.

  • Implement new banks APIs.

Internet Expert @ Cellcom Israel, Ltd

  • Tier 2 customer Support Expert Team.

  • Knowledge focal point for representatives at specialized Call centers.

  • Handling top level customer escalations and Gold customers support.

  • Experience working on UNIX-based switches with HP-UX, And with SAP & Amdocs systems.

  • Responsible for converting two call centers (Haifa and Beer Sheva) to specialized centers (provide training, and supervision throughout the beginning of the activity until go-live operation).

Internet Service Representitive @ Cellcom Israel, Ltd

  • Tier 1 customer Support Team.

  • Handling customer requirements and providing solutions on Internet, data and technical problems.

  • Rated at the 10% of the Company's outstanding employees in 2010 and a leader in service in the internet and technical Customer Service Center in 2011.

Military service (shortened for health reasons) @ IDF (Israel Defense Forces)

  • Administrative role in the logistics department at Sde Dov Air Force base.

Education

Self Learning @ Self Learning

Deep Learning Foundations @ Udacity

  • A nanodegree program at Udacity

  • The program syllabus include: Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Generative Adversarial Networks

  • The 5 projects I built during the program - GitHub

  • Completion certificate

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business Administration @ The Open University of Israel

High School diploma @ Ora Modi'im High School

  • Majoring in computer science at Ora Modi'im High School

  • GPA: 82

Skills

Architecture

Microservices RESTful APIs GraphQL Data Structures & Algorithms SasS / PasS TDD (Test Driven Development) Webhook

FrontEnd

HTML CSS / SCSS (Bootstrap, UIkit, Tailwind CSS, Material Design) JavaScript (jQuery, Ajax) Angular (cli, ngrx, material) Vue (vue router, pinia) Nuxt Tailwindcss

BackEnd

Java Spring Node.js TypeScript Express.js NestJS Python Django Flask

Tests

Mocha Jest Vitest

Platforms

Linux Git GitHub

Jamstack

Markdown Jekyll Hugo Astro

Tools

Bash Electron Gulp Yeoman Vite RabbitMQ

Databases

PostgreSQL MongoDB RethinkDB Redis Supabase

Clouds & Devops

AWS (Amazon Web Services) Docker Kubernetes Digital Ocean GCP (Google Cloud Platform) CI/CD Load Balancing NGINX

Others

Doing Pen Testing By Night Coffee Drinker Open Source Contributer Unix (Linux & Mac) User Love To Play With Arduino Done projects with Raspberry Pi

Some of my Projects

generator-jekyll-starter-kit

πŸš€ Jekyll Progressive Web App Generator.

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elmctron

Elm meets Electron

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challenges

My solutions for random coding challenges πŸ’ͺ

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angular-sanic-seed-project

πŸ’Ž An opinionated Angular - Sanic RESTful seed

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devRes

A a beautiful minimalist Hugo resume theme with a focus on DevelopersπŸ’‘

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portfolio

πŸ“– My Website - https://nir.galons.io

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awesome-cyber-awesome

Awesome Cyber Awesome - A curated list of Awesome Cyber resources πŸ’»

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Talks

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Pipenv: The future of Python dependency management

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API Star - Next generation framework!

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404 SQL DB not found. Meet RethinkDB

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