🚀 Gilly Barr
I'm Gilly. I've been programming since I was 11 years old, back before anyone knew it would be cool one day. I taught myself to build desktop apps with Visual Basic, discovered the web with php and worked throughout high-school building many eCommerce sites.
Since then, I've worked at quite a few companies and used many different technologies.
I love moving fast (while trying not to break stuff), mentoring junior developers, and experimenting with new technologies.
I'm also a husband and dad to two amazing kids.
A true maker at heart.
Experience
Rewrote the whole UI for the chat widget that is embedded on the website of thousands of customers and used by millions each month.
Added streaming audio capabilities using AudioWorklets and web sockets.
Designed and worked on features, end to end, in the creator tool - using real time communication via websockets so multiple users can edit objects simultaneously.
Working on core features of Cortex XDR, one of Palo Alto's fastest growing products. Owner of the XQL editor tool inside the app - XQL is a proprietary language for querying user data. I worked on adding many new features to the language, defining the grammar and implementing live error checking and coding suggestions while typing.
Worked with Angular & React. Used the ANTLR library for defining the XQL grammar and creating listeners for error checking and suggestions.
On the team that maintained the Trends tool and also built Pinpoint - a tool for investigative journalists to work with large amounts of documents.
Worked mainly with Java and Typescript, along with many internal proprietary frameworks and tools.
First employee of the company - Built the initial system from scratch along with one other developer (and slowly grew). After ~a year became the Front End team leader - hired and managed 7 employees that directly reported to me.
Worked extensively on the kibana source code, making many modifications for our use.
Worked extensively with AngularJS & React. Used a little java & nodejs. Became very familiar with ElasticSearch & kafka.
Full stack developer on the ShopYourWay.com website - Implemented many new features end to end. After ~a year transitioned to the infrastructure team where I worked on core features like implementing a new in-house queue management system and being responsible for the frontend performance. Gave talks within the company and implemented a performance-first approach.
Wrote a lot of code with C# and Java.
Used various storage systems - ElasticSearch, redis, MySQL, Gigaspaces
Worked on the customer facing website which users can view their credit card transactions and a personal financial management tool. I was the sole owner of the internal tool that the sales team used to register and manage new user's credit cards.
Worked mostly with C# on the backend, and used asp.net along with jquery on the frontend.
Built and maintained internal applications/tools.
Worked with C#, asp.net, memcached, Oracle DB
Education
Side Projects
Get a custom email digest of your favorite youtube videos. I created this for my own benefit at first (after I couldn't find an existing solution) and use this till today.
Built with NextJS and hosted on Vercel
Another tool I started to scratch my own itch.. I wanted a really simple stocks site that will show me only the data I'm interested in, get an email digest of the stocks I want and define simple alerts.
Built with NextJS (on Vercel) - might not be fully functional due to the stocks api bill that I stopped paying.
Just a silly project to show you how much time humanity wasted on YouTube videos and what productive stuff we couldve done instead.
A collaboration with @flying_eggplant
A dating app for trees. Who doesnt need this, right?
A joke we created for "Tu B'Shevat" - a jewish holiday to celebrate the new year of the trees.
A collaboration with @flying_eggplant
