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| 109 | + <h1>Hamza Kyamanywa</h1> |
| 110 | + <p class="headline">Founder-CTO & AI Product Engineer</p> |
| 111 | + <p class="contact">Seoul, South Korea | untilhamza@gmail.com | (+82) 10-9899-9793 | linkedin.com/in/untilhamza | github.com/untilhamza</p> |
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| 115 | + <h2>Professional Summary</h2> |
| 116 | + <p class="summary">Founder-CTO and AI product engineer who builds products where domain workflows, AI systems, and monetization meet. Currently focused on HoverNotes, a revenue-generating AI video learning product with over $10K/month revenue and around 20K Chrome/Edge installs, and Quest, a safari-operator SaaS platform I co-founded as CTO. Strongest at turning awkward manual workflows into trusted software: understand the domain, design the product and business loop, build the full stack, instrument behavior, and iterate in production. Current xAI Human Data contract work adds hands-on signal in software-engineering model evaluation. Fluent in Korean and English.</p> |
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| 119 | + <section class="skills"> |
| 120 | + <h2>Core Capabilities</h2> |
| 121 | + <p><strong>Product & Business Systems:</strong> 0-to-1 SaaS, pricing strategy, subscriptions, trials, paywalls, funnel analysis, SEO/i18n, customer-facing reliability</p> |
| 122 | + <p><strong>AI/LLM Systems:</strong> multimodal AI workflows, AI note generation, coding-model evaluation, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, Whisper, OpenAI API</p> |
| 123 | + <p><strong>Full-Stack Platform:</strong> Next.js, React, TypeScript, Python/FastAPI, Node.js/Express, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Drizzle ORM, MongoDB, Redis</p> |
| 124 | + <p><strong>Workflow & Document Systems:</strong> browser extensions, Obsidian/local-first workflows, rich editors, PDF generation, email delivery, Cloudflare R2</p> |
| 125 | + <p><strong>Infrastructure & Ops:</strong> Vercel, AWS Lambda/S3/EventBridge, Docker, Hetzner, CI/CD, PostHog, Sentry, Stripe, Razorpay</p> |
| 126 | + </section> |
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| 128 | + <section> |
| 129 | + <h2>Professional Experience</h2> |
| 130 | + |
| 131 | + <h3>Technical Founder & CEO</h3> |
| 132 | + <p class="role-meta">HoverNotes | AI video learning and note-taking SaaS | Remote / Seoul | Jul 2025 - Present</p> |
| 133 | + <ul> |
| 134 | + <li>Founded and built HoverNotes into a revenue-generating AI learning product with over $10K/month revenue and around 20K installs across Chrome and Edge.</li> |
| 135 | + <li>Created a video-in, notes-out product for people who learn from online video: users turn lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes that can live in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflow instead of another closed note silo.</li> |
| 136 | + <li>Owned the full product system across Chrome/Edge extension workflows, Next.js web app, local-first editor, AI note generation, payments, analytics, SEO, localization, and production operations.</li> |
| 137 | + <li>Designed the AI Notes experience around trust and recovery: browser capture, active-session state, backend routing, async job polling, extension-version compatibility, warning telemetry, and safe save/reconnect behavior.</li> |
| 138 | + <li>Built regional monetization for a global user base, including Stripe for global card payments, China one-time passes via WeChat Pay/Alipay, India payments via Razorpay/UPI, subscription access controls, webhook cleanup, and recurring billing workflows.</li> |
| 139 | + <li>Used product analytics to move beyond feature shipping: diagnosed first-value latency, platform-specific activation drop-off, paywall performance, media payload size, and AI Notes session health.</li> |
| 140 | + </ul> |
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| 142 | + <h3>CTO & Co-founder</h3> |
| 143 | + <p class="role-meta">Quest | Safari quotation platform for tour operators | Remote | 2026 - Present</p> |
| 144 | + <ul> |
| 145 | + <li>Co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team turning safari-operator quoting from spreadsheets, scattered assets, and manual documents into a structured SaaS workflow for requests, itineraries, pricing, professional PDFs, and quote emails.</li> |
| 146 | + <li>Lead product and platform architecture across operator dashboards, Quest admin tools, travel requests, tourists, content libraries, quote building, analytics, billing, company settings, and role-aware access.</li> |
| 147 | + <li>Built the safari-domain data foundation for accurate quote operations: destinations, activities, hotels/lodges, room rates, transport, geography, company content, vehicles, staff, reviews, and per-company settings.</li> |
| 148 | + <li>Designed quote economics for real operator constraints, including USD/UGX exchange-rate settings, live/manual rate refresh, transport fuel conversion, room pricing, service fees, and quote-level cost summaries.</li> |
| 149 | + <li>Built the document delivery system as a core product surface: branded A4 safari PDFs, page previews, edit overrides, Cloudflare R2 storage, Resend quote emails, merge tags, branded sender flows, and PDF attachments.</li> |
| 150 | + <li>Designed the Free + Pro launch model with company-level Stripe subscriptions, Quest-managed full-access trials, billing settings, plan badges, and output-level gates for clean PDFs, email sending, and branding.</li> |
| 151 | + <li>Established release and QA discipline across Vercel production, shared test branches, personal QA branches, Docker/Hetzner PDF service deployment, and documented handoff workflows.</li> |
| 152 | + </ul> |
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| 154 | + <h3>Software Engineering Specialist, Human Data / AI Tutor - Software Engineering (Expert)</h3> |
| 155 | + <p class="role-meta">xAI / Remote Technology Services | Contract | Remote | May 2026 - Present</p> |
| 156 | + <ul> |
| 157 | + <li>Contracted with xAI's Human Data software-engineering track to create and review high-quality coding data for training, benchmarking, and improving large language models.</li> |
| 158 | + <li>Evaluate AI-generated code across correctness, maintainability, performance, security, test coverage, task alignment, and production plausibility.</li> |
| 159 | + <li>Rank model outputs using evidence from prompts, diffs, traces, responses, tests, and container checks, then write concise justifications for model training and benchmarking workflows.</li> |
| 160 | + </ul> |
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| 164 | + <h3>Senior Full Stack Engineer / Freelance Technical Lead</h3> |
| 165 | + <p class="role-meta">GoGymi / TexTutor | AI EdTech SaaS | Remote, Switzerland | Jan 2025 - Sep 2025</p> |
| 166 | + <ul> |
| 167 | + <li>Delivered TexTutor, an AI-powered EdTech SaaS platform for Swiss teachers and students, across architecture, dashboards, authentication, billing, AI correction, collaboration, and deployment.</li> |
| 168 | + <li>Built the full-stack product foundation with Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Supabase, Tailwind CSS, Docker, and multilingual product flows.</li> |
| 169 | + <li>Implemented Stripe subscription infrastructure with webhooks, trials, usage tracking, plan enforcement, billing dashboards, and multilingual billing emails.</li> |
| 170 | + <li>Built AI grammar-correction and feedback workflows with formatting preservation, preset/rule management, usage validation, Lexical editing, LiveBlocks collaboration, comments, sharing, and PDF export.</li> |
| 171 | + <li>Contributed 550+ commits across frontend, backend, billing, authentication, AI workflows, and deployment.</li> |
| 172 | + </ul> |
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| 174 | + <h3>AI Engineer & Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer</h3> |
| 175 | + <p class="role-meta">Bebridge Inc. / Slid | 50K+ MAU EdTech platform | Seoul, South Korea | Jun 2022 - Jun 2025</p> |
| 176 | + <ul> |
| 177 | + <li>Grew from early full-stack engineer to AI team lead while building core systems across web, Chrome extension, desktop, mobile, payments, authentication, and AI learning workflows.</li> |
| 178 | + <li>Led AI product development for Slid's learning platform, shipping LLM-powered auto-notes, AI chat, semantic search, transcript correction, and mobile AI workflows.</li> |
| 179 | + <li>Built LLM/Whisper-based auto-notes from video lectures and contributed to measurable engagement and retention gains across learning workflows.</li> |
| 180 | + <li>Designed LangGraph multi-agent transcript-correction workflows and earlier RAG/conversational AI experiences using LangChain, Pinecone, embeddings, and streaming responses.</li> |
| 181 | + <li>Built cross-platform authentication, payment, export, transcription, and mobile AI processing systems using AWS Cognito, Stripe, Payple, WebRTC, Socket.io, AWS Lambda, FFmpeg, and cloud speech-to-text providers.</li> |
| 182 | + <li>Earned Bebridge Hero Awards in 2022 and 2023 and was promoted from Level 2 to Level 4 in 18 months.</li> |
| 183 | + </ul> |
| 184 | + </section> |
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| 186 | + <section class="selected"> |
| 187 | + <h2>Selected Ventures & Leadership</h2> |
| 188 | + <p><strong>JonjaBird | Founder / product operator | 2026 - Present:</strong> Designed a physical-digital mail and support service with pricing, client ledgers, receipt/deposit confirmation PDFs, account statements, and a future sponsor/admin platform spec.</p> |
| 189 | + <p><strong>Ugandan Community in South Korea | Vice President | 2026 - Present:</strong> Support governance, embassy-facing communication, partnership strategy, and community engagement materials for the Ugandan diaspora association in South Korea.</p> |
| 190 | + </section> |
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| 193 | + <h2>Education</h2> |
| 194 | + <p><strong>Korea University, Seoul:</strong> B.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mar 2019 - Feb 2023, GPA 4.02/4.5. Magna Cum Laude; Global Korea Scholarship and Ugandan Government Scholarship recipient.</p> |
| 195 | + <p>Co-authored "Responsible Music Genre Classification using Interpretable Model-agnostic Visual Explainers," Springer Nature Computer Science.</p> |
| 196 | + </section> |
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| 199 | + <h2>Open Source & Community</h2> |
| 200 | + <p>Contributed to developer tools and AI/open-source ecosystems including LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Editor.js, Redux Toolkit, MemGPT, Pytube, FastAPI, and related projects. Published widely used technical answers and references for WebRTC, speech-to-text, AI application patterns, and production integration issues, bringing practical debugging experience back into product work.</p> |
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