G Hornbostel
Lead Engineer, FAST, Prod Tech at Blizzard Entertainment
Mission Viejo, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolG Hornbostel is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling high-concurrency, data-heavy systems across gaming and ecommerce. Currently a Lead Engineer at Blizzard, he has led multi-team efforts that supported launches with hundreds of thousands of concurrent players and designed robust server platforms, traffic throttling, and secure client-server signing. He combines hands-on systems and architecture work (C#, .NET, microservices, Kubernetes) with people-first management—coaching engineers, running regular 1:1s, and aligning teams to product strategy. Past roles span robotics automation, payment platforms, and large-scale fulfillment and CMS projects, showing a rare breadth from firmware/C++ to cloud-native services. Colocated in Mission Viejo, CA, he’s known for choosing the right tool for the job and for turning complex cross-team problems into reliable, maintainable systems. An operator at heart, he blends pragmatic engineering with a track record of smooth launches and measurable cost-saving platform improvements.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Orange Coast College
Github Skills (16)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
asp-net10
netcore10
typescript10
logging10
dts10
typescript-definitions10
asp-net-core10
telemetry10
opencensus9
ilogger9
jaeger9
jaegertracing9
observability9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PriceSpider-NeuIntel/DefinitelyTyped
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:14 pushes in 1 year
type-definitionshigh-qualitydefinitionstypescriptquality
PriceSpider-NeuIntel/opentelemetry-dotnet
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
OpenTelemetry .NET SDK
Contributions:46 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
tracingsdk-netsdkopentelemetry
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