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

• 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

• 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