Summary
Hamza Hayat is a Staff Software Engineer based in Old Toronto with nine years' experience building mobile-first products and developer-facing SDKs. He’s shipped production React Native and native mobile features at scale for companies like HelloFresh, Sonder, Wealthsimple and RBCx, and led SDK rewrites and E2E test automation that improved developer usability and release velocity. Comfortable owning full feature lifecycles, he’s implemented everything from Apple Wallet provisioning and animated UIs to expense-splitting algorithms and blockchain token integrations. Known for mentoring peers and instilling strong engineering practices (pull-request culture, CI/CD), he blends hands-on coding with cross-team coordination and stakeholder collaboration. Notably, he expanded a commercial React Native SDK with hooks and TypeScript rewrites while producing educational material that doubled as product marketing.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Toronto Metropolitan University