Tal Barak-Manela

Tal Barak-Manela is an accomplished technology leader with extensive experience in software engineering and R&D management. Currently serving as R&D Group Lead at monday.com since December 2024, Tal previously held the position of Head of Engineering at Lynx.MD, overseeing the R&D team of a healthcare startup. Tal's earlier roles include Director of Engineering at Capacity, where leadership encompassed full engineering operations for an AI SaaS product, and Senior Software Engineer at Partek Inc., focused on genomics analysis. Early career experiences included software development roles at CCC Information Services, HP - Mercury, RSA - Cyota, and a student position at Chicago GSB. Tal holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics from The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo.