[4][5][6] During his graduate studies at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg he was a codesigner of AspectC++, an aspect-oriented extension of C and C++ languages.

[7] He later went on to obtain his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.

[10] In 2011, Gal co-founded the Boot to Gecko project, which later became Firefox OS.

[13] In June 2015 he left Mozilla,[14] co-founding the Internet of Things start-up Silk Labs with two other members of the Firefox OS team (however, Silk Labs does not use Mozilla technologies).

[15] Also in 2015, Gal became an adviser at Acadine Technologies; a startup newly founded by Li Gong (former president of Mozilla Corporation) which was to develop software based on Firefox OS.