Alon Ohad

Engineering Manager who ships

I have spent my career building software, and close to a decade leading the teams that build it. I still write code every day. Right now that means running coding agents inside production monorepos and getting the repository into a state where what they produce is something you would actually merge.

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How I work with agents

Most engineering orgs bought Copilot or Cursor seats and watched their seniors reject the agent-written pull requests. The seats are fine. The repository is the problem.

Rules that holdPer-repo CLAUDE.md files that constrain an agent to the team's real conventions, not generic ones.

Contracts in CIOpenAPI and schema checks that fail the build the moment generated code drifts.

Custom MCP serversYour own internal tools wired in, so the agent works with the systems you already run.

A golden path per teamOne agent workflow that is documented, demoed on real tickets, and actually adopted.

Ways to work together

Repo Readiness Review3 to 5 days

I read one or two repos, interview a handful of engineers, and hand back a written score of how agent-ready the codebase is, a prioritised fix list, and a live demo of an agent doing a real ticket in your repo, before and after a day of harnessing.

Agent Harness Build6 to 8 weeks, part time

I build the rule sets, the CI contract enforcement, the MCP servers, and a per-team workflow, then train the team in-repo on real tickets rather than slides.

Embedded Agentic Leadone day a week, ongoing

I keep the rules and MCP servers current as models and your stack change, and review agent-generated pull requests.

Scope and pricing depend on the codebase. Tell me about yours. See a real repo scored before/after, with the actual harness changes and one ticket run cold on both trees.

Track record

ironSourceCore servers and the department's BI system, at scale.
Sensi.AIFull-stack team lead for the platform behind audio-based care insights.
TastewiseLed backend and frontend for the food-intelligence platform and shipped its AI features into the product.
XpendAI-driven engineering for a multi-brand B2C platform: LLM features, agentic workflows, runtime brand configuration, growth systems, one codebase.

Stack

GoNodePythonReactReact NativeAWSGCPPostgreSQLMongoDB

Also built

J-alendarRecurring Jewish-date events, birthdays, yahrzeits and holidays, in your normal calendar. iOS and Android.
meshit30A free, offline study tool for the Israeli משיט 30 skipper licence theory exams.

Away from the screen

I have guided sea kayaking since 2000 and led expeditions in places like Tasmania and Svalbard. The rest of this site is about that.