Yulia Bar-on
Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYulia Bar-on is a cybersecurity-focused technology leader and entrepreneur with eight years of experience spanning engineering, product, and project management. She has led engineering teams and integrations at Snyk and Rapid7, driving continuous vulnerability management features and enterprise-grade cloud-native solutions, and contributed to the popular open-source Snyk CLI to improve dependency scanning and UX. Transitioning from hands-on engineering to product leadership, she combines deep technical fluency (Linux kernel and network security roots) with market-driven product strategy and customer validation. As a two-time co-founder and consultant, she excels at aligning cross-functional teams, recruiting and mentoring engineers, and turning competitive analysis into actionable product roadmaps. Based in Tel Aviv, she brings a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and pragmatic product instincts that help security products move from concept to customer-ready.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science and Management, BSc, Computer Science and Management at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (10)
security10
vulnerabilities10
nodejs10
javascript10
cli10
testing10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
npm9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 13 PRs, 23 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Yulia primarily focused on improving the Snyk CLI's functionality and user experience. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to dependency scanning, particularly when package-lock.json files are present. They added features like a CLI message for new version availability and implemented tests for edge cases such as missing package names. The user also refactored existing tests to use ES6 style, streamlining the codebase.
monitorssarifmonitorsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
yuliabaron/test
Nov 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:59 PRs, 46 pushes, 36 branches in 3 years 2 months
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