Ron Tal
Engineering Manager at Unit
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolRon Tal is an engineering manager based in Tel Aviv with 7 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, security-focused products and teams. He scaled Snyk’s Infrastructure-as-Code offering from inception to thousands of customers and tens of millions in ARR while leading a globally distributed team and owning a high-throughput, multi-tenant scanning pipeline. A pragmatic technologist comfortable shipping code (Go, Node/TypeScript) and running on-call, he’s contributed to the popular snyk/cli project by improving IaC JSON outputs and adding Terraform plan delta scans. Ron combines product and business sensibilities with people-first leadership—hiring, mentoring, and establishing processes that improve team health and operational excellence. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and is pursuing an Executive MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, reflecting his drive to bridge technical delivery with strategic product growth. Colleagues describe him as an iterative learner who emphasizes measurable outcomes and continuous improvement.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computer Sciences, B.Sc Computer Sciences at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, YaffoGlobal Executive MBA Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Global Executive MBA Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Reichman University
Github Skills (9)
infrastructure-as-code10
kubernetes10
terraformer10
terraform10
kubernetes-pods10
security9
json9
devops8
monitor8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:164 reviews, 65 commits, 64 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ron primarily focused on improving the output of the IaC (Infrastructure as Code) test functionality within the Snyk CLI tool. This involved modifications to the test output format, specifically for Kubernetes configurations, to provide more detailed and informative results in JSON format. They also added support for Terraform plan scanning, including delta scans that analyze resource changes. Furthermore, the user made changes to include file content in Iac Analytics.
monitorssarifmonitorsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
rontalx/goof
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:7 PRs, 16 pushes, 16 branches in 8 months
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