Vahe Hovhannisyan
Founder at Deepwander
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVahe Hovhannisyan is a builder and founder with 14 years of professional experience and over 20 years in web development, based in Austin, Texas. He has repeatedly launched product-focused startups—Deepwander (AI-guided journaling), Read This Twice (verified book discovery), and Iso100mm (photography portfolio builder)—and led engineering teams at Vareto and Ripple. Technically versatile across React/Redux, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and cloud/ML stacks, he also contributed key backend features to the widely used xrpl.js library for interacting with the XRP Ledger. His work blends product intuition with deep implementation skills in payments, cryptography-related tooling, and recommendation systems. Unusually for an engineer-founder, he pairs hands-on open-source contributions with consumer-facing product design, shipping both infrastructure and polished user experiences.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Automated Systems in Financial Institutions, Computer Science Automated Systems in Financial Institutions at State Engineering University of Armenia
English, Russian, Armenian
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
javascript10
xrp10
typescripts10
api10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
cryptocurrency9
nodejs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
XRPLF/xrpl.js
Dec 2012 - Sep 2015
A JavaScript/TypeScript API for interacting with the XRP Ledger in Node.js and the browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Vahe primarily contributed to the back-end logic and API of the xrpl.js library. They focused on implementing new features like `account_tx` requests and adding new functions to access the ledger's data and functionality. The user also addressed several bugs, and added flags. The contributions improved the functionality and stability of the XRP Ledger interaction capabilities of the library.
rippleapibrowserjavascriptnodejscryptocurrencies
ripple/ripple-client-desktop
Oct 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 184 commits, 140 PRs in 2 years
electrontechnologiesrippledesktoppayment
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