Steve Hanov
Founder at Hanov Solutions Inc.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSteve Hanov is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building practical, production-grade systems that bridge research and real-world product needs. Based in Waterloo, he turned deep computer-science principles into a profitable indie software business (Hanov Solutions) that grew web traffic to ~450,000 monthly visits while monetizing through ads, subscriptions, and software sales. His background spans low-level networking and telecom firmware (EDGE/LTE, UMA), research prototyping in ML and cloud storage at RIM, and early wins in voice and audio systems, giving him rare fluency from systems code to applied machine learning demos. Steve excels at simplifying complex technical ideas into lean, shippable products and has a track record of inventing and patenting core protocol features while also coaching teams to deliver.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Mathematics Computer Science, Masters of Mathematics Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (87)
api10
slate10
api-documentation10
dawg10
markdown9
crfsuite9
random-generation9
openapi9
user-authentication9
arduino9
cli8
recurly8
esp328
firmware8
3d-printing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smhanov/syzgydb
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
SyzgyDB: An embeddable vector database in Go for efficient disk-based storage and similarity searches, supporting various distance metrics and quantization levels.
Contributions:1 release, 49 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
smhanov/zwibserve
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 58 pushes in 2 years 8 months
collaboration
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