Tal Gross is a Senior Product Manager with 14 years of experience building data-driven, user-focused products across security, consumer platforms, and scaleups, currently shaping product strategy at Apple from Tel Aviv. He has led multi-team organizations through platform redesigns and go-to-market integrations—most recently directing three product teams at Aqua Security to unify code-to-cloud vulnerability management and UX. Tal pairs deep technical fluency (early career in QA, analytics, and 8200 networking) with hands-on contributions to open-source big-data tooling, having implemented statistical functions in the Presto query engine. Known for instituting OKRs and journey teams at startups, he reliably turns complex domain problems into pragmatic roadmaps and measurable outcomes. Outside work he builds home automation projects, reflecting a continuous curiosity for practical integrations between hardware and software.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Management Sciences - Technology & Information Systems, Master of Science (MSc) Management Sciences - Technology & Information Systems at Tel Aviv University
Information Systems Management, Information Systems Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
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Back-end Developer
Contributions:37 reviews, 5 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tal primarily contributed to the Presto query engine by implementing and documenting mathematical functions and distributions, specifically adding and refining functions for the Chi-square, Poisson, Gamma, and F distributions. Their work involved modifying Java code within `MathFunctions.java` and writing corresponding documentation in `sphinx` format. The contributions demonstrate expertise in statistical functions, API design, and documentation practices within the context of a data query engine.
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:84 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
jdbcbigdatabig-datatrinodatabase
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