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Experienced multi-disciplinary full stack software engineer specializing in building web…
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I’m honored that I was invited to meet Sam Altman and the OpenAI team alongside the most incredible AI builders and founders for a private party…
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why your Agent Skills security scanners don't work when they employ regex and I've seen quite a few of them go give the Snyk Agent Scan a try and…
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Experience
Education
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Ono Academic College
graduated cum laude
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Activities and Societies: Project and R&D Manager for off-shore CRM system for Ukraine MBA University
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Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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GitHub Star
GitHub
- Present 5 years
Science and Technology
In 2020, GitHub launched the GitHub Stars program to thank GitHub's most influential developers who have gone above and beyond in helping others in the community – not only by maintaining source code repositories but by helping educate, inspire and influence others.
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Security Specialist
OpenJS Foundation
- Present 6 years 5 months
Science and Technology
Building developer security tooling and creating educational security best practices for developers and operations engineers.
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Security Professional
Node.js
- 2 years
Science and Technology
Steward of JavaScript and Node.js developers, working in the Node.js Ecosystem Security Working Group to establish security best practices, building the Node.js Ecosystem bug bounty program and triaging hundreds of vulnerabilities and security reports on the npm ecosystem.
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Activity Coordinator at "People Who Care" community-relations program
HP Software
- 4 years 10 months
Education
Activity Coordinator of HP-software's "Masachim" Project, part of the "People Who Care" community-relations program.
Volunteering activity for "Masachim" high-school includes mentor-ship and practicing mathematics with sophomore students on a one-hour weekly basis through-out their school year.
Publications
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Node.js Secure Coding: Defending Against Command Injection Vulnerabilities
Self-published
See publicationThis in-depth guide takes you through the ins and outs of command injection vulnerabilities, using real-world examples found in popular npm packages. With detailed code reviews and secure coding best practices, you'll develop a security-first mindset and gain the expertise needed to recognize insecure code and apply secure coding conventions to your day-to-day programming.
By completing this book, you'll have the ability to perform secure code reviews, understand application security…This in-depth guide takes you through the ins and outs of command injection vulnerabilities, using real-world examples found in popular npm packages. With detailed code reviews and secure coding best practices, you'll develop a security-first mindset and gain the expertise needed to recognize insecure code and apply secure coding conventions to your day-to-day programming.
By completing this book, you'll have the ability to perform secure code reviews, understand application security jargon, and have the knowledge to manage security vulnerabilities and classify their severity. -
Web Security: Learning HTTP Security Headers
Self-published
See publicationThis book is a follow-up on Liran Tal's Essential Node.js Security for Express web applications and teaches you hands-on practical use of HTTP security headers as browser security controls to help secure web applications.
For each HTTP security header that can enhance your web application security, you'll learn what is the overall risk of not implementing it, and what does a proposed solution help with. Finally, you'll learn how to implement and configure the security header with Helmet,…This book is a follow-up on Liran Tal's Essential Node.js Security for Express web applications and teaches you hands-on practical use of HTTP security headers as browser security controls to help secure web applications.
For each HTTP security header that can enhance your web application security, you'll learn what is the overall risk of not implementing it, and what does a proposed solution help with. Finally, you'll learn how to implement and configure the security header with Helmet, a popular and well-maintained Node.js package on npm.
18 Lessons, 8 Quizzes, 30 Code Snippets, and 19 Illustrations to help you learn.
Takeaway Skills
Secure web applications using HTTP security headers
Understand Content Security Policy
Setup Node.js web applications securely
Learn how to test and monitor for security headers and vulnerable JavaScript libraries
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Essential Node.js Security for ExpressJS Web Applications
Leanpub
See publicationEssential Node.js Security is designed to be a hands-on thorough guide for securing web applications based on Node.js and the ExpressJS web application framework. Many of the concepts, tools and practices in this book are primarily based on open source libraries and the author leverages these projects and highlights them.
Covering topics such as: Node.js Secure Code Guidelines, OWASP Essential Security Risks and Countermeasures, ExpressJS Hardening, Node.js and npm secure dependencies…Essential Node.js Security is designed to be a hands-on thorough guide for securing web applications based on Node.js and the ExpressJS web application framework. Many of the concepts, tools and practices in this book are primarily based on open source libraries and the author leverages these projects and highlights them.
Covering topics such as: Node.js Secure Code Guidelines, OWASP Essential Security Risks and Countermeasures, ExpressJS Hardening, Node.js and npm secure dependencies management, Understanding and securing HTTP Headers, NoSQL Injections, XSS, CSRF, Regex DoS, Sessions and others. -
MEAN Web Development - Second Edition
2016
Develop your real-time MEAN application efficiently using a combination of MongoDB, Express, Angular 2, and Node.js.
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Agile Software Development with HP Agile Manager
Apress
See publicationLiran Tal provides a practical, concise approach to using Agile Manager in a variety of settings to better plan, conduct, and manage software releases within development teams. His step-by-step approach will show you how to plan your product’s features, streamline the agile sprint process, work with user stories, and track defects throughout the development process.
Agile Manager can work for small startups, mid-sized teams, as well as scale up for bigger organizations as a…Liran Tal provides a practical, concise approach to using Agile Manager in a variety of settings to better plan, conduct, and manage software releases within development teams. His step-by-step approach will show you how to plan your product’s features, streamline the agile sprint process, work with user stories, and track defects throughout the development process.
Agile Manager can work for small startups, mid-sized teams, as well as scale up for bigger organizations as a cost-effective and flexible tool to apply agile techniques to improve your software development process. -
MEAN Web Development
Packt Publishing
Master real-time MEAN web application development and learn how to construct a MEAN application using a combination of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js.
Amos Haviv is the author for this book title, I have worked with Amos and PacktPub as a technical reviewer for this book, and my part of the core developers team for the open source MEAN.JS JavaScript framework.Other authorsSee publication -
Drupal 7 Media
Packt Publishing
See publicationYou will learn how to leverage Drupal’s community modules to implement support for images, videos, and audio content, along with the best practices for implementation. We will be mentioning ideas throughout the book, which you can extend upon and use to build your own web applications. We will explore HTML5 support for media resources, the semantic web, and responsive web design, which are key topics in modern web application development. We will then build upon this knowledge and add more…
You will learn how to leverage Drupal’s community modules to implement support for images, videos, and audio content, along with the best practices for implementation. We will be mentioning ideas throughout the book, which you can extend upon and use to build your own web applications. We will explore HTML5 support for media resources, the semantic web, and responsive web design, which are key topics in modern web application development. We will then build upon this knowledge and add more functionality to our sample website, such as support for analytic charts and customizing images, all of which we will implement using our own custom modules.
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Drupal Rules How-to
PACKT Publishing
I have worked on this Drupal 7 Rules book as a technical reviewed, assigned by PACKT Publishing.
"Drupal Rules How-to" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear step-by-step exercises, which will help you take advantage of the real power of the Rules framework, and understand how to use it on a site builder and developer level.Other authors -
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daloRADIUS User Guide
Self-published
See publicationComplete Administrator's User Guide to daloRADIUS Platform. daloRADIUS is an advanced RADIUS web platform aimed at managing hotspots and general-purpose ISP deployments. It features user management, graphical reporting, accounting, and integration with GoogleMaps for geo-locating
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Elgg 1.8 Social Networking
PACKT Publishing
I have worked on this book as a technical reviewer, assigned by PACKT Publishing.
Detailed and easy-to-understand analysis on building your very own social networking site with Elgg. Explore the vast range of Elgg's social networking capabilities including communities, sharing, profiles and relationships.Other authors -
Patents
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CONTEXTUAL-BASED LOCALIZATION BASED ON MANUAL TESTING
Filed US WO/2014/209263
A system may recreate, based on code of an application and user action data, how a user interacts with the application. The user action data may indicate how the user interacts with the application while manually testing the application. The system may detect screen states in the code based on the recreation...
Other inventorsSee patent
Courses
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Certified Security Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
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HP's Agile for PMO (Project Management Office)
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HP's Manager's Development Program (MDP)
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HP's New Managers Orientation
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Introduction to Java Spring
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Machine Learning Workshop
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Projects
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Core Team Member at MEAN.JS
Core Team members and Top Contributor for the MEAN.JS JavaScrpit framework.
MEAN.JS is a full-stack JavaScript open-source solution, which provides a solid starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications.
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daloRADIUS
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See projectdaloRADIUS is an advanced RADIUS web management application aimed at managing hotspots and general-purpose ISP deployments. It features user management, graphical reporting, accounting, a billing engine and integrates with GoogleMaps for geo-locating
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Linux Embedded Developer for X-WRT / OpenWRT
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See projectX-WRT is a framework built on top of the OpenWRT embedded linux distribution for Linksys WRT54G models and many others.
► Developed the WebIf Hotspot package which manages the ChilliSpot captive portal server for Wi-Fi Hotspots.
► Developed the WebIf SNMP package, providing SNMP server management.
► Contributed bug fixes, feature enhancements and general code reviewing on other packages as well. The OpenWRT and X-WRT developers came up with their own web language for…X-WRT is a framework built on top of the OpenWRT embedded linux distribution for Linksys WRT54G models and many others.
► Developed the WebIf Hotspot package which manages the ChilliSpot captive portal server for Wi-Fi Hotspots.
► Developed the WebIf SNMP package, providing SNMP server management.
► Contributed bug fixes, feature enhancements and general code reviewing on other packages as well. The OpenWRT and X-WRT developers came up with their own web language for embedded boxes - AWX - which is a compound framework of awk, sed and bash.
Honors & Awards
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JavaScriptLandia Pathfinder Security Award
OpenJS Foundation
Liran Tal – Pathfinder Award for Security – “Liran is a tireless advocate for security in the JS ecosystem. He works hard to build bridges, educate developers about security issues, and support Open Source projects working to improve their security posture. Liran has served on the Node security team and is always available to support developers!”
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GitHub Star
GitHub
Awarded the GitHub Star for a second consecutive year of the GitHub program for influential developers who actively seek out to better their developer communities.
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GitHub Star
GitHub
GitHub launched the GitHub Stars program to thank GitHub's most influential developers who have gone above and beyond in helping others in the community – not only by maintaining source code repositories but by helping educate, inspire and influence others.
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Employee of The Month
TELES AG
Awarded for excellency and distinguished contribution
Languages
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Hebrew
Native or bilingual proficiency
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English
Professional working proficiency
Organizations
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NodeTLV
Program Committee
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NodeTLV
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MEAN.JS
Core Developer
-Core developer for MEAN.JS [1] project, and top contributor for MEAN.io [2] - Full-stack JavaScript frameworks for the MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and NodeJS technology stack. [1] https://github.com/meanjs/mean [2] https://github.com/linnovate/mean
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hello.js Cluj JavaScript Conference
Speaker
-Presentation Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/LiranTal1/open-source-and-the-mean-stack
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