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I'm Uri Kalish, a senior software engineer with a passion for creativity and innovation. I hold a BSc in computer science, and love spending my free time inventing and developing open-source code projects.
OpenText
Master Software Designer
(2023 - Present)
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Leading ValueEdge global menu development [Lit, HTML, CSS, Typescript].
Leading ValueEdge accessibility effort.
Micro Focus
Expert Software Engineer
~6 years (2017 - 2023)
Leading & developing the styling platform ​for ALM Octane. [HTML, CSS, Less, Typescript, React].
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Developing ALM Octane features and fixing defects. [HTML, CSS, Less, TypeScript, React].
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Lecturing about SIT (Systematic Inventing Thinking), leading creative activities, brainstorm sessions and invention workshops.
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Reviewing patent submissions as part of the company's patent review committee.
Invented & co-developed the anomaly detection and flag rules mechanism in ALM Octane, crucial components of the entire Octane analytics epic. [HTML, CSS, Typescript, React, Node].
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Invented & developing "html-screen-capture-js" - an open-source library that captures a live web page and returns a new lightweight, self-contained HTML document, removing all external file dependencies while preserving the original appearance of the page. This library has ~3000 downloads a month, and even used by MongoDB in their customer support site. [HTML, CSS, TypeScript].
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Invented & developing the "Jenkins Chrome Extension" - an open-source Chrome extension that enables Jenkins users to see details about each commit in each build, contact the commiters, and quickly identify and investigate failed builds. This extension has ~500 users. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Chrome extension, Jenkins].
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Invented & developed "Project Artemis" - a library for locating web UI objects based on descriptions written in non-technical natural language. This project was one of the main inspirations behind the Micro Focus A.I. Codeless product. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Chrome extension].
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Invented & co-developed "Project Prisma" - a library that displays coverage on top of a web UI, based on the elements touched during a previously run automated or manual tests. [JavaScript, Chrome extension, Java].
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Developing an AWS Lambda service that can connect to an internal instance of ALM Octane, retrieve information, and create entities. [JavaScript, Node, AWS Lambda].
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Invented and developing an internal Chrome extension for logz.io that enables developers to easily transform logz.io error records into Octane defects. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Chrome extension].
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Co-designed & co-developed "ADM Ocean" - an unconventional-looking dashboard for managers, displaying live metrics from multiple products. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node, Pug].
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Handling Google Analytics related tasks.
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Invented & developing "Octanetopus" - a Chrome extension for ALM Octane, that enables users to easily differentiate between multiple instances, see the current time in multiple cities, read the news via an RSS feed, and listen to live streaming music. This extension has ~70 users. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Chrome extension].
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Invented & developed "CodeGrid" - a small open-source solution for presenting live coding competitions and hosted several such events. [HTML, CSS, Typescript, React].
Initiated & tutored internal lessons and workshops about Chrome extensions. [Chrome extension]
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Tutored in a volunteering program for gifted high school students, helping them design and develop software applications.
Initiated & tutored internal Arduino lessons and workshops. [Arduino].
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Co-designed & co-developed the "MF Escape Box" - an innovative escape-room-in-a-box used for PR purposes in conventions. [Arduino, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node].
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Invented & developed a device to automatically signal a person's cubicle presence. [Arduino].
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Invented & developed "Figurenotes Composer" - a site where teachers can create music sheets aimed at challenged or young audience, that is unable to read standard music notation. Pro bono. [HTML, CSS, Typescript, React].
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Co-developed a social gaming application for "The Incredibles" - an educational hackathon ran by the city of Tel Aviv. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node].
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Wrote & acted in several internal and external company PR videos.
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Won a company-wide video clips contest about rebranding and got to attend the HPE - Micro Focus merger event at the New York Stock Exchange.
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Initiated the "MF Communities" agenda - internal groups created around shared off-work hobbies.
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Played acoustic guitar and sang as part of the company's music band.
Lecturing junior high students, as part of the "Other Lesson" volunteering program.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Expert Software Engineer
~2 years (2015 - 2017)
Led & developed the styling platform ​for ALM Octane. [HTML, CSS, Less, Typescript, React].
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Developed ALM Octane features and fixed defects. [HTML, CSS, Less, TypeScript, React].
Invented & developed "HP CodeWar" - a coding competition where teams battle each other in a game-like arena governed by Conway's Game of Life rules. This project was later duplicated at eBay. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript].
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Invented & created "Art Dashboard" - a marketplace for developers and artists, that enables replacing ordinary graph-based agile-related dashboards, with artworks representing the same data. This project won the creativity award in an internal hackathon. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node].
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Invented & co-developed a visual time-based representation of ALM metrics using a video creating tool designed originally for visualizing changes in source code repositories. [C#, Gource].
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Invented and co-developed "Intercultural Adviser" - an Outlook extension that reads the text of incoming and outgoing emails and warns about possible intercultural misunderstandings. [C#].
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Invented & co-developed "Testimonies in Context" - an interactive time-based map of Holocaust and WWII related events. This project won the 3rd place in a hackathon hosted by the Yad Vashem museum. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node].
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Wrote & acted in several internal and external company PR videos.
Tutored several groups as part of HPE's volunteering for the community program, helping kids to boost their self-confidence through public singing.
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Played acoustic guitar and sang as part of the company's music band.
Hewlett Packard (HP)
Inbound Product Manager &
Software Engineer
~9 years (2006 - 2015)
Led & managed the functional definitions of HP ALM Lab application. This application managed, scheduled, and monitored resources, for usage in both functional and performance tests. It handled hosts, pools, locations, servers, licenses, diagnostics, reporting, and more.
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Led & managed the functional definition of HP ALM integration with Tasktop's plugin for Eclipse.
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Co-managed the functional definitions of HP ALM agile management related features.
Transformed high-level requirements received from marketing, partners and customers, into concrete features, created PRD documents, and managed their implementation.
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Collaborated with marketing, PMO, UX, UI, DEV, QA, DevOps, documentation, sales, support and piers in other products.
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Engaged with external partners and customers, managed customer surveys, feedback, enhancement requests and reported issues.
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Conducted competitor analysis of similar products in the industry.
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Co-developed the resource reservation mechanism in HP ALM Lab. This module was responsible for matching, prioritizing, and scheduling local and cloud resources, based on the specific requirements of each test. [C#].
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Co-developed ALM support for usage of cloud machines as test resources. [C#].
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Co-developed ALM support for AUT topologies, and integration with provision and deployment solutions. [C#].
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Co-developed Performance Center, a web-based load testing solution for large enterprises. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET, C#, SQL.]​
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Wrote & acted in several internal and external company PR videos.
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Played acoustic guitar and sang as part of the company's music band.
Mercury Interactive
Software Engineer
~6.5 years (2000 - 2006)
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Co-developed LoadRunner Analysis - the offline analysis application for the industry-standard world-leading performance testing solution. The application processes a large amount of user-created and monitor-collected data, and provides graphs, and extensive analysis capabilities. [Delphi].
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​Developed LoadRunner Online. The application displayed real-time graphs and statistics of user-created and monitor-collected data. [Delphi, C++].
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Developed the online and alerts mechanisms for ProTune - a LoadRunner spinoff, aimed at performance testing for production systems. The mechanism displayed real-time graphs of user-created and monitor-collected data, and alerted users about breached thresholds. [Delphi, C++].
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Co-developed Performance Center, a web-based load testing solution for large enterprises. [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSF, JSP, Java, Hibernate, SQL​]
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Invented & developed "BuildsInfo", an internal reporting tool for analyzing LoadRunner component hierarchies. This application was used by every developer in the company. [Delphi].
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Invented & developed a proprietary component-based build mechanism for LoadRunner and related applications. [C#].
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Invented & developed "Napoleon" - a local task runner for LoadRunner developers. [C#].
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Played acoustic guitar and sang as part of the company's music band.
Amdocs
Software Engineer
~1.5 years (1998 - 2000)
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Worked part time as a BSc student.
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Co-implemented a new billing method, based on customer data usage. [C, Cobol].
The Academic College of
Tel Aviv–Yaffo
BSc Student
~3 years (1996 - 1999)
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BSc in Computer Science.
Battalion 8157
Sergeant of Operations &
Combat Soldier
~18 years (1996 - 2014)
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Field artillery sergeant of operations (army reserves).
Field artillery combat soldier (army reserves).
Battalion 334
Sergeant of Operations &
Combat Soldier
~3 years (1993 - 1996)
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Field artillery sergeant of operations​.
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Field artillery combat soldier.
Hayovel
High School
Student
~3 years (1989 - 1992)
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Student of physics & mathematics.