Manu Zenou

Head of Engineering · Scaling product teams & building AI-native engineering orgs

Tel Aviv District, Israel

About

I'm an engineering leader who builds and scales product engineering teams, with a focus on technical excellence, delivery speed, and engineering culture. I'm a builder at heart who grew into leading teams, and I care deeply about the intersection of engineering culture, technical leverage, and product impact. I've spent the past few years rethinking how engineering teams deliver - integrating AI agents and agentic workflows across the full SDLC. The shift goes beyond tooling, it changes team structure, hiring, and how you measure engineering output.

Experience

  • Head Of Engineering at A.Team
    Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Building and scaling the engineering org from the ground up, reaching a peak of 24 engineers, owning hiring, team structure, and engineering culture throughout the company's growth journey. Leading end-to-end engineering of A.Team's core platform. Spanning the builder network, client experience, AI matchmaking layer, and internal operations tooling. Leading the engineering shift into enterprise AI. Building a company intelligence product that aggregates cross-functional business knowledge and surfaces actionable intelligence for enterprise decision-makers. Transforming the engineering org's SDLC by embedding AI agents and agentic workflows across the full delivery cycle. From spec through coding, review, and deployment — fundamentally changing how the team builds and ships.

  • Totango (Tel Aviv, Israel)
    • Application Team Leader
      Jan 2016 - May 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos

      Led and grew a full-stack engineering team, owning recruitment, technical mentoring, and career development alongside hands-on application development End to end ownership product delivery, from design and development through code review, deployment, and production monitoring. Designed and scaled Totango's cloud-based application architecture to support the platform's growth as a leading enterprise Customer Success solution.

    • Senior Full Stack Engineer
      Feb 2014 - Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Established application-side infrastructure, building Node.js microservices on AWS and redesigning the application layer to support scale.

  • Full Stack Engineer at WalkMe
    Sep 2012 - Dec 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Built server and client-side features across a full-stack environment, working with JavaScript, C#, ASP.Net MVC, and AWS, with a strong emphasis on cross-browser compatibility and open-source tooling. Early exposure to building scalable web products in an agile environment.

  • Software Engineer at Radcom
    Jul 2010 - May 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Designed and implemented correlation algorithms for telecom protocols in a C++ Linux multithreaded environment, including onsite delivery for international accounts.

  • Student Position at Intel
    Aug 2008 - Mar 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Developed and maintained business intelligence dashboards and reporting infrastructure using SQL, VBA, and Excel.