Maya Sagalin
June 1, 2026
Tab Management Is a Prediction Problem
A technical essay on why browser tab management should be predictive, not cleanup-driven, and what Tab Agent's benchmark actually proves.
Hello, I'm
Maya Sagalin
BuilderProductEngineerCornell MBA
Building thoughtful products with technical depth and product judgment.
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About
I started out writing code. Then I got curious about why we build things - and that changed everything.
My foundation is Computer Science and Bioinformatics from Ben Gurion University. But the question that kept pulling me forward wasn't technical - it was strategic. Why are we building this? Who does it actually serve? What should we build next?
That curiosity pushed me beyond execution and into shaping what gets built, why it matters, and how teams bring it to life. At Segoma, I grew into the person who owned the roadmap, made the hard trade-offs, and brought people together across three continents to build something they were proud of. At Lavie Engineers, the stakes shifted - enterprise clients, complex partners, high-pressure delivery - and I learned that the most expensive thing in any project isn't bad code. It's misalignment.
Now I'm at Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business as a Forte Fellow, adding the strategic layer to a foundation that's already technical, already cross-functional, and already proven. I'm here to do it at a bigger scale, on harder problems, with more impact.
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Experience
2026
MBA Consultant, Enterprise AI / Product Strategy
Oracle
New York, US
Enterprise AI product strategy work for a financial-services customer-service use case.
- Advised an Oracle sponsor on enterprise AI product strategy, developing a prototype, PR/FAQ, PRD, demo narrative, and executive pitch to position OCI as a governed CX solution
- Analyzed customer service workflows, competitive positioning, ROI levers, and adoption requirements to frame Generative AI and Agentic AI Services around secure RAG, auditability, human-in-the-loop governance, and deployment
Enterprise AIProduct StrategyGenAIPRDExecutive Communication
2024 - 2025
Project Manager
Lavie Engineers S.B Ltd
Beer Sheva, Israel
Turnkey solutions in LPG, natural gas, and water purification.
- $2M+ annual revenue - directed strategic delivery for 12 enterprise clients using agile and risk management
- Boosted client satisfaction 10% by running stakeholder interviews and aligning execution with product strategy
- Closed $500K+ across 4 contracts with Intel, IEC & major hospitals through requirements translation and alignment
Project ManagementEnterpriseAgileStakeholder Management
2021 - 2024
Product Manager, Software Development & R&D
Segoma
Herzliya, Israel
Cloud-based 3D imaging and SaaS solutions for the luxury gemstone trade.
- Scaled to 2,000+ DAU - owned end-to-end delivery of partner integrations and third-party API solutions
- Cut release cycles by 3 weeks through cross-functional ownership with QA and infrastructure
- Reduced production costs 20% by optimizing backend throughput and cutting latency by 200ms
- Shipped 6 major releases coordinating teams across New York, Hong Kong, and India
- Cut seller onboarding time 10% via UX redesign driven by user analytics and iterative testing
Product ManagementSaaSB2BR&DRoadmappingAPI Integrations
2017 - 2020
Lecturer
Kidumatica
Beer Sheva, Israel
Extracurricular math excellence program for gifted youth.
- 95% satisfaction - designed curriculum and delivered STEM programs to 1,000+ students; trained a 20-person staff
- Mentored 12 students to 5 national competition wins
STEM EducationLeadershipCurriculum DesignCoaching
Education
Cornell University
MBA - SC Johnson Graduate School of Business
Ithaca, NY-2024 - Present
CurrentForte Foundation Fellow
Leadership
- HTC Club - VP of Trek
- VC Club - VP of Community
- JBA - President
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
B.Sc. - Computer Science & Bioinformatics
Beer Sheva, Israel-2017 - 2021
Projects
Personal Project
Tab Agent
A focus-first browser memory agent built to help people manage tab overload without constantly deciding what to keep, close, or reopen. Designed as a personalized system that learns which contexts are safe to compress and which are costly to interrupt, it combines autonomous tab sleep and wake behavior with product thinking around trust, feedback, and usability.
Personal project - Built independently
Personal Project
Pawfolio
A mobile-first dog care app built to help one owner manage routines, reminders, health history, and memories in one calm, trustworthy place. Designed around real daily use, Pawfolio combines warm companion-style UX with serious care organization, private backup and restore, and dependable operational structure.
Personal project - Product + engineering
Flagship Project
RecruitOS
A personal recruiting operating system for MBA students pursuing internships, built to reduce chaos and make the next best action clearer across applications, networking, casing, and recruiting knowledge. Designed as an opinionated single-user workflow tool rather than a generic tracker, RecruitOS combines structured execution with product thinking around focus, memory, and follow-through.
Personal project - Built independently
Class Project
AI Customer-Service Prototype
Built an end-to-end agentic AI customer-service prototype as part of Cornell's Digital Technology Immersion. Developed the PR/FAQ, executive pitch deck, and demo narrative, using LLM tooling and structured product thinking to explore how AI support systems can be shaped into something scalable, credible, and useful.
Cornell SC Johnson - Digital Tech Immersion - 2025-2026
Academic
RICA Cyber Program
Selected for the Ruhr-Israel Cyber Activator (RICA) program at Ben Gurion University, where I worked on smart-lock data protection research and presented findings to academic and industry leaders. The experience strengthened both my technical foundation and my interest in how security, systems, and real-world product constraints intersect.
Ben Gurion University - 2021
Volunteering
Volunteer
Baby Brigade
Supported a community resource initiative for local parents, helping connect families with essential supplies and in-person support through a large-scale Ithaca resource fair.
Community impact initiative - Featured by Cornell Chronicle
Mentor
Big Red Tech Strategy
Mentored Cornell Master of Engineering students through project work, helping them shape stronger business thinking around market research, strategic positioning, and how to evaluate technical ideas through a product and commercial lens.
Cornell community
Active
MBA Mentorship Program
Co-leading a peer mentorship initiative for international MBA students navigating the U.S. job market. First-years get paired with second-years for recruiting guidance, pre-MBAs get support with applications and school selection, and the broader community benefits from speaker events and structured programming.
International MBA Community - Co-Lead, Mentorship Program
Volunteer
Code for Israel
Full-Stack Developer volunteer building nonprofit integration tools. Collaborated with design and dev teams to build features aligned with product vision, streamlining operations and expanding platform impact for social-sector organizations across Israel.
Code for Israel - Full-Stack Developer
Skills
Product Management路
Roadmapping0-to-1 ProductAgile / ScrumUser ResearchStakeholder ManagementB2B SaaSPRD WritingTrade-off Analysis
Technical路
PythonSQLJavaScriptC#C++GitRESTful APIsMongoDB
AI & Data路
Agentic AIPrompt EngineeringLLM IntegrationData AnalysisA/B Testing
Languages路
English (Fluent)Hebrew (Native)Russian (Native)
Interests
Salsa Dancing
Ten years in, and it still feels like flying. Salsa is where I stop thinking and just move.
Embroidery
Started during COVID as a creative escape, turned into a small business. Pattern by patient pattern.
Global Travel
Favorite city: Vienna. Something about the coffee, the architecture, and the unhurried pace gets me every time.
Writing a Book
A work in progress - fiction, for now. The words are coming. Slowly becoming real.
Meet Dylan馃惥
My Great Pyranees adventure buddy - equal parts fluff and fearless.
Thoughts
Blog
Contact
Let's talk.
Whether it's a role, a collaboration, or just a good conversation - I'm always open.