I completed my Ph.D. in Software Engineering at McGill University advised by Dr. Shane McIntosh. In May 2016, I received my MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of British Columbia. At UBC, I was advised by Dr. Ali Mesbah and Dr. Ivan Beschastnikh. My research is in mining large-scale data sources in software engineering (e.g., GitHub, StackOverflow, and TravisCI) to uncover patterns and to provide insights for developers and tool builders. I'm also interested in programming languages, CI/CD, and empirical software engineering.

I have worked as a Software Engineer at WSO2, Fortinet, and Wise Systems. I have conducted research at Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge and YourBase to build developer tools. In my free time, I enjoy reading and contributing to open source projects. This is a timeline of important events in my life.

Publications

• Developer-Applied Accelerations in Continuous Integration: A Detection Approach and Catalog of Patterns [ link | pdf ]
  Mingyang Yin, Yutaro Kashiwa, K Gallaba, Mahmoud Alfadel, Yasutaka Kamei, and Shane McIntosh
  ASE'24 Full In Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), To Appear, 2024
• Rethinking Software Engineering in the Era of Foundation Models [ link | pdf ]
  Ahmed E. Hassan, Dayi Lin, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, K Gallaba, Filipe Cogo, Boyuan Chen, Haoxiang Zhang, Kishanthan Thangarajah, Gustavo Oliva, Jiahuei (Justina) Lin, Wali Mohammad Abdullah, Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang
  FSE'24 Full In Companion Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), pp. 294-305, 2024
• Lessons from Eight Years of Operational Data from a Continuous Integration Service: An Exploratory Case Study of CircleCI [ link | pdf | video ]
  K Gallaba, Maxime Lamothe, and Shane McIntosh
  ICSE'22 Full Nominated for ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pp. 1330-1342, 2022
• Accelerating Continuous Integration by Caching Environments and Inferring Dependencies [ link | pdf | video ]
  K Gallaba, Yves Junqueira, John Ewart, and Shane McIntosh
  TSE Journal In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 48(6):2040-2052, 2020
• Improving the Robustness and Efficiency of Continuous Integration and Deployment [ link | pdf ]
  K Gallaba and Shane McIntosh
  ICSME'19 Short In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pp. 619-623, 2019
• Can duplicate questions on stack overflow benefit the software development community? [ link | pdf ]
  Durham Abric, Oliver E. Clark, Matthew Caminiti K Gallaba, and Shane McIntosh
  MSR'19 Short In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Mining challenge, pp. 230-234, 2019
• Noise and Heterogeneity in Historical Build Data: An Empirical Study of Travis CI [ link | pdf ]
  K Gallaba, Christian Macho, Martin Pinzger, and Shane McIntosh
  ASE'18 Full In Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), pp. 87-97, 2018
• Use and Misuse of Continuous Integration Features: An Empirical Study of Projects that (mis)use Travis CI [ link | pdf ]
  K Gallaba and Shane McIntosh
  TSE Journal In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 46(1):33-50, 2018
• Revisiting "Programmers' Build Errors" in the Visual Studio Context [ link | pdf ]
  Noam Rabbani, Michael S. Harvey, Sadnan Saquif, K Gallaba, and Shane McIntosh
  MSR'18 Short In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Mining challenge, pp. 98-101, 2018
• Do Software Engineers Use Autocompletion Features Differently Than Other Developers? [ link | pdf ]
  Rahul Amlekar, Andrés Felipe Rincón Gamboa, K Gallaba, and Shane McIntosh
  MSR'18 Short In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Mining challenge, pp. 86-89, 2018
• An Empirical Study of the Personnel Overhead of Continuous Integration [ link | pdf ]
  Marco Manglaviti, Eduardo Coronado-Montoya, K Gallaba, and Shane McIntosh
  MSR'17 Short In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Mining challenge, pp. 471-474, 2017
• The Impact of the Adoption of Continuous Integration on Developer Attraction and Retention [ link | pdf ]
  Yusaira Khan, Yash Gupta, K Gallaba, and Shane McIntosh
  MSR'17 Short In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Mining challenge, pp. 491-494, 2017
• Refactoring Asynchrony in JavaScript [ link | pdf ]
  K Gallaba, Quinn Hanam, Ali Mesbah, and Ivan Beschastnikh
  ICSME'17 Full In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 353-363, 2017
• Don't Call Us, We'll Call You: Characterizing Callbacks in JavaScript [ link | pdf ]
  K Gallaba, Ali Mesbah, and Ivan Beschastnikh
  ESEM'15 Full Best Paper Award In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 247-256, 2015
• Levi - A Workflow Engine Using BPMN 2.0
  K Gallaba, U Pavalanathan, I Jayawardena, E Sooriyabandara, V Nanayakkara
  CeBPM'12 Workshop Workshop on Cloud-enabled Business Process Management (CeBPM 2012), Nov 28-30, 2012, Paphos, Cyprus; published in: Haller, A., Huang, G., Huang, Z., Paik, H.Y., Sheng, Q.Z. (Eds.): Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2011 and 2012 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 7652, Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg 2013, pp. 92-104

Service

• ICSE'25ICSE'24 International Conference on Software Engineering - PC Member (Software Engineering in Practice Track)
• ICSME'24 International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution - PC Member (Industry Track)
• AIware'24 ACM International Conference on AI-powered Software - Proceedings Chair
• SANER'24 International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering - PC Member (Research Track)
• FORGE'24 International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering - PC Member
• MSR'23 International Conference on Mining Software Repositories - PC Member (Research Track Junior PC and Industry Track PC)
• TSE IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Reviewer
• EMSE Empirical Software Engineering Journal - Reviewer
• JSS Journal of Systems and Software - Reviewer
• IST Journal of Information and Software Technology - Reviewer
• SCAM'21 International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation - Social Media Co-Chair
• ICPC'20 ICPC'19 International Conference on Program Comprehension - PC Member (Tools Track)
• SANER'19 International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering - Co-Reviewer
• MSR'18 International Conference on Mining Software Repositories - Co-Reviewer
• OOPSLA'17 Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications - Artifact Evaluation Committee Member
• ICSME'17 International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution - Co-Reviewer