Stephen Hankinson
Principal AI Scientist at Densitas Inc.
Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolStephen Hankinson is a Principal AI Scientist at Densitas with over three decades of engineering and leadership experience and eleven years focused in roles spanning AI, DeFi, marketing intelligence, and mobile telecommunications. A serial founder and technical executive, he co-founded Affinio (acquired by NOW Vertical Group) and helped build Tether’s popular mobile tethering solution, bringing product-first thinking to complex ML and systems problems. He has led engineering teams at Arrakis in crypto finance and steered R&D at Quark Engineering, consistently shipping pragmatic, production-ready solutions from prototyping to scale. Stephen blends formal electrical engineering training from Dalhousie with hands-on development across embedded devices, analytics platforms, and AI for medical imaging—an uncommon mix that accelerates translation of research into clinical and commercial impact. Based in Nova Scotia, he is known for bridging deep technical rigor with entrepreneurial grit and a talent for turning domain knowledge into robust, user-focused products.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electrical Engineering with Computer Option, Bachelor Electrical Engineering with Computer Option at Dalhousie University
French
Github Skills (47)
trading10
python9
backtesting9
crypto9
bitcoin9
docker9
bots9
blockchain9
ai9
ethereum9
binance9
exchange9
cython9
cryptocurrency9
dex9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shankinson/SparkOnAzure
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 2 years
azurespark
shankinson/set-protocol-v2
Aug 2021 - Jan 2024
Set Protocol V2
Contributions:29 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
ethereumset-protocol
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