Menachem M. Hornbacher
Lead Software Engineer
New York
US & EU
About
Polyglot engineer with 10+ years building production systems specializing in web technologies and their associated infrastructure. Experienced in PHP, Node.js, .NET, Python, GoLang and React, with extensive experience in AWS, Azure and Kubernetes environments. Advocate and contributor for Open Source, passionate about transparency, analytics, and pragmatic AI/Automation in buisness solutions.
Projects
Experience
Kiddom
Senior Product Engineer
June 2023 - Present
Dipping my toe back into the product-focused world at a fast-paced, mission-driven startup in the EdTech space. In this role I was directly responsible for delivering critical features that secured NYC adoption as well as improving WCAG accessibility across the platform.
Block / AfterPay
Senior Lead Platform Engineer
October 2021 - April 2023
Joined the Block family through the acquisition of AfterPay, leading a team of 5 engineers to build out "CashKite" an in house CI/CD platform infrastructure platform on AWS that mitigated supply-chain attacks that the industry is only now starting to seriously grapple with.

NeonOne
Senior Product Engineer
June 2023 - Present
After a small detour into consulting I joined my friends at Rallybound (now NeonOne) leading a rotating team of 5 engineers building out new features and improving the core fundraising platform .NET framework on Azure.
Our greatest successes were supporting the NFL's draft day event(s) as well as transitioning our payments to .NET Core without downtime or a single dropped charge to maintain PCI compliance.

Tzivos Hashem
Devops Engineer
September 2017 - December 2018
Transitioned from seasonal work to my first job as the sole software engineer at local non-profit managing all IT and web infrastructure, in addition to developing new features on top of a legacy PHP codebase.
In this role I am proud to have introduced modern software practices such as CI/CD, Git, and VirtualBox for local development. In addition to introducing React.JS to improve our admin panel performance by multiple orders of magnitude.
Leiders Sukkah
Webmaster & Wholesale Manager
September 2015 - September 2017
Started as a seasonal worker during the Sukkot holiday, quickly promoted to webmaster for the 1990s Perl site, all internal IT as well as managing our wholesale accounts around the world.