Alex Hornbake
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Wolt
Aalborg, North Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolAlex Hornbake is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale backend systems across video streaming, social, gaming, retail optimization, and developer security tooling. He blends deep engineering craft—Go, Python, Typescript and scalable observability—with leadership as a mentor and coach, having improved performance and developer velocity at companies like GitHub, ShiftLeft, and Dots. Alex has a strong track record of shipping measurable outcomes, from cutting page load times and migrating storage systems to a 40% faster insights page, to a 600% user uptake from a one-click SAST integration. He designs systems that make complex decision-making auditable and explainable, notably in retail forecasting and optimization, and is comfortable owning both customer-facing pipelines and internal platform reliability. Based in Aalborg, Denmark, he brings a generalist backend perspective with an unusual mix of product-minded optimization and operational rigor.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Management Science, B.S. Management Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (88)
programming-language10
interpreter10
indices10
golang10
elasticsearch-client10
go10
compiler9
inspect9
elasticsearch9
goplus9
odin9
spreadsheet8
rest-api8
authentication8
hmac8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alexhornbake/note-pass
Mar 2017 - Jun 2021
Secure Paper Password Manager
Contributions:17 PRs, 16 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 3 months
securecryptographypassword-generatorsecuritypassword-manager
alexhornbake/extenderr
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
extended errors (tags, error codes, http status) that play nice with pkg/errors and unwrap
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
error-codeshttp-statuspkgextendedunwrap
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