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Ron Galay

Senior Software Engineer
Tel Aviv

Summary

Experienced software engineer. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success. Eager learning new technologies and tackling hard open-ended problems.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Software Developer

Facebook
Tel Aviv
02.2021 - Current

Taking part at rewriting Messenger app to be end to end encrypted.

- Lead the integration with Messenger org. SDK (Mainly Java and python tech stack):

  • Participated in cross-functional projects while driving direction to Messenger US based teams. Working closely with 3 other engineers.
  • Setting execution and success criteria for our integration
  • Creating code generation framework to streamline development of our 6 product engineers

- Lead network performance track.

  • Working closely with performance engineers from Messenger org, to assist and direct them in bug hunting
  • Setting clear metrics for performance and guardrails

Software Developer

Facebook
Tel-Aviv
03.2019 - 02.2021

Took part as an infrastructure engineer at the Express-Wifi team.

Lead engineer in scaling our SaaS product to 4M monthly users. SaaS infra written in go:

  • Created an Openflow based service, to offer ISPs a monetizable access point
  • Performing performance analysis and suggesting improvements to our go based service to rest of engineers
  • Worked closely with cross-functional teams of network experts and deployers to gather problems and solicit feedback

Senior Software Engineer

Curv
Tal-Aviv
11.2018 - 03.2019

10th employee in a startup later sold to paypal.

Was in charge of making our client cross platform, on windows, linux and mac.

Senior Software Engineer

XM Cyber
Herzeliya
07.2017 - 11.2018

- Architected and Lead our products automatic update mechanism for both on-prem and SaaS deployments:

  • Worked closely with PM and UI engineers.
  • Lead a task force of 2 developers
  • Actively developed our Node.js server side logic

- Lead the ability to make our agent cross platform. Working on a c++11 and c++14 tech stack

Software Engineer

IDF
06.2011 - 07.2017

Developer in 8200 unit

  • Member of a dedicated development team. The development was in c++ while using win32api
  • Mentoring new team members on windows internals
  • Introducing c++11 and c++14 standards in our code base
  • Member of a dedicated development team. The development was in python.

Education

Master of Science - Computational Biology

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
10.2013 - 10.2016

Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering

Technion
Israel
10.2007 - 10.2011

Master of Science - Computer Science

Technion
Israel
10.2010 - 10.2011

Skills

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Accomplishments

    - Conducted academic research on:

  • Parallel matrix multiplication on high performance computing.
  • Differential privacy algorithmic research
  • Psagot graduate with software engineering specialty Maf’at and Technions’ excellence program
  • Graduate of Israeli intelligence AHAM course

Timeline

Software Developer

Facebook
02.2021 - Current

Software Developer

Facebook
03.2019 - 02.2021

Senior Software Engineer

Curv
11.2018 - 03.2019

Senior Software Engineer

XM Cyber
07.2017 - 11.2018

Master of Science - Computational Biology

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10.2013 - 10.2016

Software Engineer

IDF
06.2011 - 07.2017

Master of Science - Computer Science

Technion
10.2010 - 10.2011

Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering

Technion
10.2007 - 10.2011
Ron GalaySenior Software Engineer