Alex Horovitz
Vice President Manufacturing Operations
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Horovitz is a versatile technology and operations leader with over two decades of experience building software, manufacturing systems, and startups, now focused on scaling chip fabrication and test capabilities as VP of Manufacturing Operations at Snowcap Compute. He has led factory software, AI/ML-driven device testing, and Software Defined Factory initiatives at Ford and Apple, blending deep engineering craft with product ownership and cross-functional collaboration. A serial founder and operator, Alex has launched multiple companies and a nonprofit, shipped revenue-generating products, and led teams through zero-to-one builds and enterprise transformations. He pairs an agile, data-driven approach to automation and process control with a people-first leadership style that prioritizes measurable outcomes. Academically grounded in economics and philosophy, he brings a rare mix of quantitative rigor and strategic curiosity to complex socio-technical problems. Outside work he writes technical books and has a track record of turning early prototypes into funded, acquisition-ready products.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Philosophy, Masters Philosophy at San Francisco State UniversityHigh School Diploma General Education, High School Diploma General Education at St. Mary's College High School
German, Spanish, Hebrew
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Github Skills (8)
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xcode6
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Github contributions (5)
AlexHorovitz/Ohlfs-font-to-ttf-conversion
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Among the many UI accomplishments by Keith Ohlfs at NeXT is this wonderful little font. It has never been modernized to work on the current version of the OS and unfortunately Keith passed away this year (October 26th, 2016). Anyone who is willing to help in this effort is invited to join.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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AlexHorovitz/covid-19-trends-per-100k
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Normalized data sets of COVID-19 cases per 100k population in the reporting areas
Contributions:3 PRs, 75 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
casesnormalizeddata-setsreportingareas
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