Saar Kuriel, a Senior Software Engineer at Snyk, has made the transition from an Engineering Manager role to an Individual Contributor, where he works on the revolutionary developer-centric SAST tool, Snyk Code. He aims to be technically proficient in his group's systems, promote engineering needs, improve and grow the product, and mentor other team members. Saar is currently working on refactoring a core component of Snyk Code, which handles communication with source code management tools and processes repositories for analysis. The challenge lies in balancing innovation, agility, and quality to produce scalable and reliable software. With full support from his managers, he has the freedom to experiment and learn new skills, including programming languages like Go. Saar describes the engineering culture at Snyk as transparent, allowing team members to contribute to different projects and make a difference, while leaving their stamp on the company's efforts.