Menachem Hornbacher is a Lead Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems across education, fintech, and nonprofit sectors. He combines hands-on engineering and people leadership—reducing onboarding from days to hours, running WCAG accessibility hackathons, and leading teams that cut CI/CD costs by half while adding ARM support. His work spans front-end refactors that unlocked statewide PDF curriculum exports to backend platform improvements that maintained PCI compliance and managed large internal package servers. Comfortable prototyping tooling (monorepos) and scripting developer workflows, he focuses on lowering long-term maintenance costs and accelerating delivery. Trained as a full-stack developer and EMT, he brings a practical, service-oriented mindset and a “slow and steady” approach to solving high-impact operational problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Data Structures and Algorithms Computer Science, Data Structures and Algorithms Computer Science at Coursera
AEMT Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic), AEMT Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic) at Emergency Care Programs
Smicha Rabbinical Studies, Smicha Rabbinical Studies at Bais Toras Menachem
Full Stack Web Development - Online Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development - Online Computer Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Computerized Accounting, Computerized Accounting at Los Angeles ORT College
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth
Contributions:5 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
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Menachem Hornbacher - Lead Software Engineer at Kiddom