Gal has been hacking since he got his hands on a computer. He started doing it professionally at age 16.

Gal did work for the IDF for a short while. He later worked as an independent consultant on information security while doing a start-up. Following this he went to study and joined Intel, initially as a member of the Pin binary instrumentation engine development team and now he is leading a team doing security evaluation and research @ Intel focusing on FW and touching on SW and HW.

Gal studied math and comp-sci at Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).