Yehonatan Sayag

Engineering Manager//Full-Stack Lead

Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience in full-stack development, managing 20+ engineers directly and indirectly, and driving the adoption of AI-assisted development.

20+engineers led
5direct reports
10+years shipping
1us patent granted

~/philosophy

Leading the team, owning the architecture.

I'm Yehonatan, an engineering leader at XM Cyber. I run the Full Stack Infra team - the shared components, tooling, and standards behind the company's product applications - and manage the company-wide Full Stack Guild: hiring, onboarding, and engineering standards for 20+ engineers.

01 · ai-native

AI in the engineering loop

I pioneered the adoption of AI-assisted development across the organization. From writing specs that agents turn into code to AI in everyday review and delivery, the goal is a workflow where AI is built in, not bolted on.

02 · platform

Frontend is a platform, not screens

I led the shift from a monolithic frontend to independently deployed micro-apps, so each team can release on its own schedule without waiting for anyone else.

03 · people

Teams over heroes

Being the go-to person doesn't scale. I invest in hiring, onboarding, and mentoring so that knowledge lives in the team - shared standards and good documentation instead of one person's memory.

04 · contracts

Contracts, not coupling

Frontends should specify their API contracts, not absorb whatever arrives. Normalized data models, lean payloads, and deliberate FE/BE contract design keep multiple teams shipping side by side.

~/career

10+ years of building for the web, end to end.

From migrating Backbone to React at INFINIDAT to leading the frontend of XM Cyber's attack-path platform.

Feb 2022 - Present

Full Stack Infra Team Lead · Guild Manager

XM Cyber · 5 direct reports · 20+ guild engineers
  • Lead the team building the reusable components and core UI infrastructure powering every XM Cyber application.
  • Manage the company-wide Full Stack Guild - standards, architecture, hiring and onboarding for all web development.
  • Drove flagship product delivery: a new vulnerability & risk management module, a rebuilt scenario-creation workflow, and cloud-security reporting.
  • Modernized delivery with per-app CI pipelines and Sentry-based observability.
Aug 2018 - Feb 2022

Frontend Tech Lead

XM Cyber · breach-and-attack-simulation platform
  • Owned attack-path visualization, reporting, and attack-simulation UIs used daily by enterprise security teams.
  • Pioneered the shared React component library and data-layer patterns that became the company-wide design system.
  • Acted as de-facto frontend owner: mentored and onboarded engineers, authored environment and deployment guides.
  • Owned cross-module UI initiatives and FE/BE API contract design to reduce payloads and coupling.
Oct 2015 - Jul 2018

Software Developer

INFINIDAT · InfiniBox management UI
  • Developed client-side features for enterprise storage management at petabyte scale.
  • Modernized legacy systems, migrating features from Backbone.js to React.
ARCHITECTURE

Micro-frontend platform

Split a monolithic release process into independently deployed micro-apps on shared infrastructure - from one coordinated version to routine per-team deploys.

DESIGN SYSTEM

Shared components & design tokens

Built the shared component ecosystem and company-wide design system adopted by all product applications - documented in Storybook, versioned as independent packages.

PRODUCT DELIVERY

Product delivery at scale

Led delivery of major product modules: data-heavy tables, filtering, and drill-down views built on the shared infrastructure.

AI-ASSISTED ENGINEERING

Spec-to-code workflows

Evaluated and rolled out agent tooling, ran workshops, and made spec-to-code part of everyday delivery.

PEOPLE

Hiring & onboarding

Shaped the hiring and onboarding path for engineers across the guild - interview process, guides, and hands-on mentoring.

RELIABILITY

Observability & CI/CD

Per-app CI pipelines, visual regression testing, and error monitoring with actionable alerting - plus ownership in incident response.

~/git

Side projects.

Designed, built, and operated end to end - live products with real users, running in production.

Dabur Reports

Production dashboards for social-media monitoring: Excel/CSV files parsed into structured reports and charts, with role-based admin, public share links, and AI-generated summaries via Cloud Functions.

Next.js 15FirebaseTypeScriptAI summaries

MILIM - מילים

Mobile-first Hebrew vocabulary PWA: word cards with TTS, a customizable quiz engine, an AI Hebrew tutor, and offline caching via a generated service-worker manifest. A native iOS/Android version is underway via Capacitor.

ReactFirebaseAI tutorPWA → Capacitor

Red7

Real-time multiplayer implementation of my favorite card game - Red7: rooms, synchronized game state over WebSockets, and the server as the single source of truth for the rules.

ReactSocket.IORecoilFramer Motion

BabyTracker

A pregnancy companion with an AI assistant grounded in curated week-by-week content and the user's own uploaded documents - Express API on Cloud Functions, conversation memory, and a fully offline dev mode.

React 19ExpressFirestoreAI assistant

~/skills

The toolbox.

Leadership

  • Team management & hiring
  • Onboarding & mentoring
  • Agile delivery & roadmaps
  • Stakeholder management
  • Guild governance

AI-Assisted Development

  • Claude Code · Cursor · Antigravity
  • Spec-to-code workflows
  • Agent loops & guardrails
  • LLM product integration

Frontend

  • TypeScript · React
  • Micro-frontends (Module Federation)
  • React Query · styled-components
  • D3.js · data visualization
  • Performance · a11y

Architecture & Tooling

  • Design systems · Storybook
  • Webpack · NX · Vite
  • Jest · Vitest · Playwright · Chromatic
  • GitHub Actions · Jenkins · ArgoCD
  • Docker · Sentry · Lokalise

Backend & Data

  • Node.js · Python
  • Express · Firebase Cloud Functions
  • Firestore · MongoDB · SQL · Redis
  • Socket.IO · WebSockets
  • REST APIs
US Patent · Granted 2023

US11575700B2

Systems and methods for displaying an attack vector available to an attacker of a networked system. Covers the attack-path visualization work I led at XM Cyber.

Education

B.Sc. Computer Science

Tel Aviv University, 2013-2017.