On the professional side, Amnon has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion university in Haifa, Israel. As an Israeli, Amnon served in the Israeli Defense Force for three years. He chose to serve as a test and experimentation engineer, inventing and improving terminal ballistic experimentation methodologies. Amnon also wrote experiment decoding software for X-Ray imaging and other experiment artifacts, getting international recognition for improving precision of behind-armor-debris experiments while shortening decoding time from hours to seconds. After his military service, Amnon worked for Mercury Interactive (now HP), where he developed unique solutions for administration of large enterprise monitoring applications. In 2001 he was sent to Boulder CO to spearhead integration of a newly acquired company called Freshwater Software. In this function he initiated, architected and developed cutting edge projects leveraging existing technologies and developing possibly the first AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) UI framework used in an enterprise application, predating even the term AJAX. In 2004 he started working for Webroot Software, a provider of security software, where after helping to build the enterprise endpoint protection product he became a software development manager for the main consumer product line of the company. In that function, Amnon developed and released the 2011 security product line, which received the PC-Magazine Editors' Choice Award. Amnon recently moved to Seattle, WA and now works as Software Development Manager for Amazon Video on Demand.
Amnon started taking lessons towards his Private Pilot license at Western Air Flight Academy in Broomfield Colorado.
Amnon’s space-aspirations stem from his drive to innovation, improving life on Earth by contributing to acceleration of space exploration technology development and having already gone vertically, albeit down, by jumping from an airplane and skydiving – time to go up.
