Haneef Ghanim
Cofounder And CTO at Pastel HQ
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHaneef Ghanim is a co-founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building product-focused web platforms, currently leading engineering at Pastel to streamline designer-developer collaboration. He combines hands-on full-stack development—React frontends, Node.js backends and Go microservices—with a founder’s eye for product-market fit, having previously launched startups like LoftShare and Flowcast. At Wattpad he helped migrate a monolith to service-oriented architecture and built performance-critical services, demonstrating strength in scalable systems and API design. Based in Toronto, he balances pragmatic engineering with product design sensibilities, favoring elegant solutions to deceptively simple problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) with Honours Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) with Honours Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (36)
browser9
react9
nextjs8
expressjs7
javascript7
typescript7
compiler7
backend6
hybrid6
backend-api6
react-component6
integrate6
static-site-generator6
decentralized-finance5
exchange5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thorchain/ASGARDEX-old
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
A fast and secure decentralised exchange built for THORChain
Contributions:48 commits, 20 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 month
secureexchangeethereumblockchainthorchain
haneefghanim/haneefghanim.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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