Abe Hanoka is a software engineer based in New York with five years of experience building payment systems and calendar-driven web applications used by hundreds to thousands of daily users. He specializes in Python and Django, with strong background in Stripe/Authorize.net integrations, scalable cloud deployments, and full-stack productization of complex financial workflows. Abe has a track record of shipping mission-critical systems—One8.io and PayTheBoot—that resolved historical billing issues and automated multi-party payouts, and he founded MergeCal to unify iCal feeds for active users. He also contributes to open-source projects, improving documentation and examples for the widely used icalendar parser and modernizing dj-stripe docs to serve multiple versions. Known for pragmatically bridging product needs and developer ergonomics, Abe often pairs robust backend automation (Celery, webhooks, reconciliation engines) with developer-friendly APIs and Swagger documentation. He brings a blend of operational rigor and user-focused design, having reduced load and errors across production services while keeping integrations easy for other teams.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Computer Science, Certificate Computer Science at edX
First Rabbinic Degree (Bachelors of Arts), First Rabbinic Degree (Bachelors of Arts) at Tomchei Temimim Rabbinical College
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Abe primarily focused on improving the project's documentation and examples. They updated the credits file, removing a dead link and adding a missing `pytz` import to an example, ensuring the code functioned correctly. Furthermore, the user updated a usage example by including print statements to ensure tests pass and normalize whitespace. These contributions significantly enhance the clarity and usability of the project for other users.
Automatically sync recurring Hebrew calendar events, like birthdays and anniversaries, to your digital calendar
Contributions:17 reviews, 119 PRs, 285 pushes in 1 year 8 months
djangohebrewicalicalendarics
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