Steve Veerman
Chief Technology Officer & Software Lead at HITCH
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSteve Veerman is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building full-stack web and hardware-integrated systems, currently leading HITCH, an educational video platform for African schools. He combines hands-on architecture and development with team-building and Scrum delivery, having hired and managed multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver device software, cloud platforms, and HTML5 applications. His background spans startups and enterprise roles—from Postmedia and Thomson Reuters to founding projects like busmaple.com and data-mining tools in Node.js—demonstrating strength in systems integration, APIs, and productization. Steve pairs engineering chops (from COBOL/mainframe to modern JavaScript stacks) with business savvy from an MBET and B.Tech, enabling him to translate stakeholder needs into operational SaaS products. Notably, he has a track record of shipping practical prototypes to production and advocating open data and transit tech in the community.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Faculty of Engineering - Computing and Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Faculty of Engineering - Computing and Information Technology at McMaster UniversityComputer Science Technology Software Engineering (Co-op), Computer Science Technology Software Engineering (Co-op) at Mohawk CollegeMaster’s Degree Faculty of Engineering - Business Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET), Master’s Degree Faculty of Engineering - Business Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) at University of Waterloo
English
Stackoverflow
114reputation
20kreached
7answers
1question
Github Skills (11)
registrar8
ip-address6
facebook-graph-api6
php6
jquery6
dns6
facebook6
parsing2
solidity1
ethereum1
identity1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
veerman/hsrmap
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes in 1 month
veerman/cam-viewer
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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