Honoré Hounwanou
Co-Founder at PayDunya
Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolHonoré Hounwanou is a Canadian-based technologist and serial co-founder with 12 years of experience building customer-focused web and mobile platforms. As Co-Founder of PayDunya and former CTO at SamaPass and Upperskies, he blends product instincts with hands-on full-stack engineering to improve user experience through both new technologies and iterative platform enhancements. His background in telecommunications and ongoing doctoral studies in informatics inform a systems-oriented approach to scalability and performance. Comfortable leading teams and shipping production systems across payment, ticketing, and discovery domains, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of turning user needs into pragmatic technical solutions. An often-overlooked strength is his cross-cultural experience bridging African and Canadian tech ecosystems, which shapes his inclusive product perspective.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics at Université LavalDUT 1 & 2, Telecommunications, DUT 1 & 2, Telecommunications at Institut National Polytechnique Houphouët BoignyBachelor's degree, Telecommunications, Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications at Ecole Supérieure de Technologie et de Management (Sénégal)Master's degree, Telecommunications, Master's degree, Telecommunications at Ecole Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications de Dakar (ESMT)
English, French
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Github Skills (12)
event-manager10
ticket-system10
eventbus10
php10
event-handling10
laravel10
back-end-development10
laravel-mix10
database9
databases9
relationship6
eloquent6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
parlonscode/bloggy
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:175 commits, 129 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
mercuryseries/inertia.symfony.react
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:60 commits, 104 pushes in 3 months
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