Summary
Jason Hanley is a seasoned software and AI leader with 15 years of experience optimizing development processes across startups and multinational organizations, now serving as Director of AI and Software Engineering at Total Life. He blends hands-on engineering, product-minded leadership, and operational rigor from prior roles as CTO, founder, and president, guiding teams from early-stage builds to scale. A University of Waterloo software engineering graduate with an MBA in marketing and project management, he uniquely pairs technical depth with commercial and delivery acumen. His background includes long-term entrepreneurial experience—founding and later leading Syllogistic Software—and mission-driven technology direction at The Rumie Initiative. Based in Hope, British Columbia, he focuses on pragmatic AI adoption and repeatable engineering practices that shrink time-to-value. Colleagues describe him as a builder who favors measurable process improvements over flashy buzzwords.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Marketing Project Management, MBA Marketing Project Management at Wilfrid Laurier University
B.Math Computer Science Software Engineering, B.Math Computer Science Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French