Oren Shalev, CV

Develop customer-facing features and lead feature design and development. Advocate for better DevEx and DevSpeed by identifying technical bottlenecks and introducing modern tooling. Collaborate across backend, mobile, and UX teams to align on complex architectural decisions and execution plans that ensure high-quality, incremental delivery.

• Build a simple MCP for retrieving code review comments from the internal GitHub instance, so I and others could address them with our agents right in the IDE. Though this functionality is built-in in some environments and organizations, yet it was unavailable to me or my team.

• Link our tests to our CI so they run automatically on each merge, a requirement for a high quality bar and for continuous deployment, missing in our team and in all other front-end teams in the product. This lifted the need for a semi-manual release sign-off.

• Mentor a student on their first software engineering project to a successful completion.

Prototype features under consideration to enable XFN teams quickly evaluate feasibility, benefits/drawbacks, interaction patterns, and data quality. Work with and separately from the production stack, according to project needs, such as build a React webapp for dev speed and rich ecosystem, and connect to production backends for data.

• Work with multiple teams concurrently, prioritize and scope in order to provide as many teams what they need. With manager and teammates in the US, operate independently with XFN teams in Israel, Europe, US, India. Knowledge domains include Japan shopping, sports, automotives, COVID-19 vaccines, more.

• Teach CSS grid to team, other UXEs, SWEs; give a talk at an internal conference for UXEs and others across the company.

• Start a cross-org community of UXEs in EMEA, enabling us to lean more on each other for help in our time zones.

• Example 20% project: add dark theme to a popular (>100k MAU) internal product. Dark theme is an a11y recommendation and a top user request. Pitch to owner team, scope and design, enlist another UXE to split the work, implement, address alpha feedback, launch, clean-up. Positive feedback from team and users. Required learning the internal web app infra (Wiz), Closure templates (a.k.a. Soy), other production tech. Themes implemented as CSS custom properties (a.k.a. CSS variables), values generated in compile time from SASS variables.

Join the team responsible for the company’s internal dashboarding product (>30k MAU). Focus on adapting the product better to varying form factors, such as small laptop displays and large non-interactive TV screens. Develop using React (classes and adopting hooks) with Flow, Hack (Meta’s PHP dialect), GraphQL with Relay.

• Pitch the idea to develop a web view for mobile devices, the team’s opinion was that the required effort for an MVP is too big. Build proof of concept as a hackathon project to demonstrate actual effort is smaller, gain team approval, implement, experiment with the group (team & offshore sister teams), release.

• Mentor an intern to successfully complete their project and receive an offer of employment.

• 2014 – 2018

  Front-end team leader | Mobile Center. Lead 6 engineers, local and off-shore (China), developing the product's web app.

  • Responsible for design and implementation, cross-browser compatibility, integration with other products, interfaces with dev and QA teams in and out of the product, L10N of the product.

  • Initiate and drive front-end tech efforts such as development using ES2015+, unit and E2E testing, CSS grid; product efforts such as feature flags, branching model similar to git flow, hackathons.

  • Convert developers from other tech stacks to front-end engineers in my team.

• 2011 – 2014

  Front-end developer | Mobile Center; HP Anywhere; HP Hive. Web development for desktop and mobile. Start G11N effort across the proudct. Promoted to team leader upon my request.

• 2007 – 2011

  Back-end developer | Business Service Management.