Michael Ben-nes
Company Owner at Epoch Source Ltd
Rosh Pina, North District, Israel
Summary
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SeniorMichael Ben-nes is a seasoned software architect and entrepreneur with nearly 30 years of hands-on experience building scalable web and IoT systems and leading projects for Fortune 100 companies and startups. As owner of Epoch Source he delivers government, corporate, and startup solutions and is currently building LLM workflows using LangGraph and related tooling. He has repeatedly designed high-throughput, event-driven microservice architectures—handling workloads like a billion daily requests—and led infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of IoT devices. A long-time open-source contributor, Michael has contributed bug fixes and HTTP/host handling improvements to the prominent Zend Framework repository and maintains libraries in Golang, Flutter, PostgreSQL, and PHP. Comfortable at both low-level systems work and product-facing integration, he blends pragmatic engineering with entrepreneurial instincts honed across founding roles and ISP/CXO experience. Based in northern Israel, he prefers simple, cost-effective solutions that scale.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hebrew, Hungarian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
unit-testing10
zend-framework10
request-handler10
php10
webrequest10
http-request10
httpwebrequest10
image9
postgresql9
cookie9
flutter9
dart9
nginx-configuration8
nginx-conf8
virtual-pc6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Jun 2013 - Jan 2014
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on modifying the `Request.php` and `RequestTest.php` files within the Zend Framework. Their contributions centered on improving the handling of HTTP host and server name parameters, especially in relation to nginx configurations and the correct retrieval of host information. Additionally, they addressed a 2038 bug in the `SetCookie` functionality when dealing with cookie expiration dates on 32-bit systems and provided corresponding tests.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
mbn18/resume
Apr 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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