Philipp Hanes
Director, Architecture at BrainGlow Labs
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPhilipp Hanes is an experienced software leader and architect with 17 years building Java-based web and mobile systems and currently serving as Director of Architecture at Fidelity Investments. He blends hands-on development—spanning Java, Ruby on Rails, Android, and modern front-end JavaScript—with technical leadership gained from founding multiple startups and leading teams of up to eight developers in finance and telecom projects. His background includes core wealth-management platforms at J.P. Morgan/Chase and RiskMetrics, plus academic teaching roles at Harvard where he mentored students on mobile and UI design. Philipp’s practical curiosity shows in long-term freelance product work (BrainGlow Labs) and early prototyping of HTML5/Android apps, reflecting an ability to move from concept to production. Colleagues rely on him for clear cross-functional communication across requirements, build, test and deployment lifecycles. Based in Somerville, MA, he combines a solid academic foundation in information technology and pure mathematics with an entrepreneurial mindset that favors pragmatic, user-focused solutions.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, Essay: Mathematics, International Baccalaureate, Essay: Mathematics at AIS ViennaALM, Information Technology, ALM, Information Technology at Harvard UniversityBSc, Pure Mathematics, BSc, Pure Mathematics at University of Warwick
German, French
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Github Skills (65)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
philipp/keyring2keepass
Aug 2009 - Jun 2011
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year 9 months
philipp/ForceCORS
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
A Google Chrome extension that allows you to selectively force CORS headers to be applied to server responses
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 4 tags in 1 day
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