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<title>Hamza Kyamanywa Resume Draft - 2026-06-05</title>
<title>Hamza Kyamanywa Resume Draft - 2026-06-09</title>
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<section>
<h2>Professional Summary</h2>
<p class="summary">Founder-CTO and AI product engineer who builds products where domain workflows, AI systems, and monetization meet. Currently focused on HoverNotes, a revenue-generating AI video learning product with over $10K/month revenue and around 20K Chrome/Edge installs, and Quest, a safari-operator SaaS platform I co-founded as CTO. Strongest at turning awkward manual workflows into trusted software: understand the domain, design the product and business loop, build the full stack, instrument behavior, and iterate in production. Current xAI Human Data contract work adds hands-on signal in software-engineering model evaluation. Fluent in Korean and English.</p>
<p class="summary">Founder-CTO and AI product engineer who builds products where domain workflows, AI systems, and monetization meet. Currently focused on HoverNotes, a revenue-generating AI video learning product with over $10K/month revenue and around 20K Chrome/Edge installs, and Quest, travel planning software for tour and travel companies that I co-founded as CTO. Strongest at turning awkward manual workflows into trusted software: understand the domain, design the product and business loop, build the full stack, instrument behavior, and iterate in production. Current xAI Human Data contract work adds hands-on signal in software-engineering model evaluation. Fluent in Korean and English.</p>
</section>

<section class="skills">
<h2>Core Capabilities</h2>
<p><strong>Product &amp; Business Systems:</strong> 0-to-1 SaaS, pricing strategy, subscriptions, trials, paywalls, funnel analysis, SEO/i18n, customer-facing reliability</p>
<p><strong>AI/LLM Systems:</strong> multimodal AI workflows, AI note generation, coding-model evaluation, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, Whisper, OpenAI API</p>
<p><strong>AI/LLM Systems:</strong> multimodal AI workflows, AI note generation, coding-model evaluation, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, Whisper, LLM APIs</p>
<p><strong>Full-Stack Platform:</strong> Next.js, React, TypeScript, Python/FastAPI, Node.js/Express, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Drizzle ORM, MongoDB, Redis</p>
<p><strong>Workflow &amp; Document Systems:</strong> browser extensions, Obsidian/local-first workflows, rich editors, PDF generation, email delivery, Cloudflare R2</p>
<p><strong>Infrastructure &amp; Ops:</strong> Vercel, AWS Lambda/S3/EventBridge, Docker, Hetzner, CI/CD, PostHog, Sentry, Stripe, Razorpay</p>
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<h2>Professional Experience</h2>

<h3>Technical Founder &amp; CEO</h3>
<p class="role-meta">HoverNotes | AI video learning and note-taking SaaS | U.S. company; remote from Seoul | Jul 2025 - Present</p>
<p class="role-meta">HoverNotes | AI video learning and note-taking SaaS | Remote, United States | Jul 2025 - Present</p>
<ul>
<li>Founded and built HoverNotes into a revenue-generating AI learning product with over $10K/month revenue and around 20K installs across Chrome and Edge.</li>
<li>Created a video-in, notes-out product for people who learn from online video: users turn lectures, tutorials, and course videos into structured notes that can live in their own Obsidian/Markdown workflow instead of another closed note silo.</li>
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</ul>

<h3>CTO &amp; Co-founder</h3>
<p class="role-meta">Quest | Safari quotation platform for tour operators | Kampala, Uganda; remote from Seoul | 2026 - Present</p>
<p class="role-meta">Quest | Travel planning software for tour and travel companies | Remote, Kampala (Uganda) | 2026 - Present</p>
<ul>
<li>Co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team turning safari-operator quoting from spreadsheets, scattered assets, and manual documents into a structured SaaS workflow for requests, itineraries, pricing, professional PDFs, and quote emails.</li>
<li>Lead product and platform architecture across operator dashboards, Quest admin tools, travel requests, tourists, content libraries, quote building, analytics, billing, company settings, and role-aware access.</li>
<li>Built the safari-domain data foundation for accurate quote operations: destinations, activities, hotels/lodges, room rates, transport, geography, company content, vehicles, staff, reviews, and per-company settings.</li>
<li>Co-founded Quest as CTO and lead a 3-person engineering/product team building travel planning software for tour and travel companies in Uganda.</li>
<li>Lead product and platform architecture across operator dashboards, Quest admin tools, travel requests, tourists, destination/content libraries, itinerary building, quote generation, analytics, billing, company settings, and role-aware access.</li>
<li>Built the travel-domain data foundation for accurate planning and quote operations: destinations, activities, hotels/lodges, room rates, transport, entry fees, geography, company content, vehicles, staff, reviews, and per-company settings.</li>
<li>Designed quote economics for real operator constraints, including USD/UGX exchange-rate settings, live/manual rate refresh, transport fuel conversion, room pricing, service fees, and quote-level cost summaries.</li>
<li>Built the document delivery system as a core product surface: branded A4 safari PDFs, page previews, edit overrides, Cloudflare R2 storage, Resend quote emails, merge tags, branded sender flows, and PDF attachments.</li>
<li>Built the document delivery system as a core product surface: branded A4 trip documents and quote PDFs, page previews, edit overrides, Cloudflare R2 storage, Resend quote emails, merge tags, branded sender flows, and PDF attachments.</li>
<li>Designed the Free + Pro launch model with company-level Stripe subscriptions, Quest-managed full-access trials, billing settings, plan badges, and output-level gates for clean PDFs, email sending, and branding.</li>
<li>Established release and QA discipline across Vercel production, shared test branches, personal QA branches, Docker/Hetzner PDF service deployment, and documented handoff workflows.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Software Engineering Specialist, Human Data / AI Tutor - Software Engineering (Expert)</h3>
<p class="role-meta">xAI / Remote Technology Services | Contract | Remote, USA | May 2026 - Present</p>
<p class="role-meta">xAI / Remote Technology Services | Contract | Remote, United States | May 2026 - Present</p>
<ul>
<li>Contracted with xAI's Human Data software-engineering track to create and review high-quality coding data for training, benchmarking, and improving large language models.</li>
<li>Evaluate AI-generated code across correctness, maintainability, performance, security, test coverage, task alignment, and production plausibility.</li>
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<section>
<h2>Professional Summary</h2>
<p class="summary">Technical founder, CTO, and senior AI product engineer focused on HoverNotes and Quest, with 4+ years building AI-powered education, productivity, travel, and workflow systems. Founded HoverNotes, now over $10K/month revenue with around 20K Chrome/Edge installs, and co-founded Quest as CTO, leading a 3-person team building safari quotation software and PDF infrastructure. Also contracted with xAI Human Data on software-engineering model evaluation. Strong in TypeScript/React/Next.js, Python/FastAPI, browser extensions, LLM systems, payments, analytics, document generation, and production reliability. Fluent in Korean and English.</p>
<p class="summary">Technical founder, CTO, and senior AI product engineer focused on HoverNotes and Quest, with 4+ years building AI-powered education, productivity, travel, and workflow systems. Founded HoverNotes, now over $10K/month revenue with around 20K Chrome/Edge installs, and co-founded Quest as CTO, leading a 3-person team building travel planning software for tour and travel companies in Uganda. Also contracted with xAI Human Data on software-engineering model evaluation. Strong in TypeScript/React/Next.js, Python/FastAPI, browser extensions, LLM systems, payments, analytics, automated document generation, and production reliability. Fluent in Korean and English.</p>
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<section class="skills">
<h2>Technical Skills</h2>
<p><strong>AI/LLM:</strong> OpenAI API, Whisper, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, vector search, prompt engineering, multimodal AI workflows</p>
<p><strong>AI/LLM:</strong> LLM APIs, Whisper, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, vector search, prompt engineering, multimodal AI workflows</p>
<p><strong>Frontend/Product:</strong> Next.js, React, TypeScript, React Native, Tailwind CSS, Lexical, Chrome/Edge extensions, Obsidian/local-first workflows</p>
<p><strong>Backend/Data:</strong> Python, FastAPI, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Drizzle ORM, MongoDB, Redis</p>
<p><strong>Infrastructure/Ops:</strong> AWS Lambda, S3, EventBridge, Docker, Vercel, Cloudflare R2, Hetzner, CI/CD, PostHog, Sentry</p>
<p><strong>Business Systems:</strong> Stripe, Razorpay, webhooks, subscriptions, trials, pricing, credits, PDF/document generation</p>
<p><strong>Business Systems:</strong> Stripe, Razorpay, webhooks, subscriptions, trials, pricing, credits, PDF/automated document generation</p>
<p><strong>Languages:</strong> Korean (TOPIK 5), English, Luganda</p>
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<section>
<h2>Professional Experience</h2>

<h3>Technical Founder &amp; CEO</h3>
<p class="role-meta">HoverNotes | AI video note-taking SaaS | U.S. company; remote from Seoul | Jul 2025 - Present</p>
<p class="role-meta">HoverNotes | AI video note-taking SaaS | Remote, United States | Jul 2025 - Present</p>
<ul>
<li>Founded and built HoverNotes, a privacy-first AI video note-taking product with over $10K/month revenue and around 20K installs across Chrome and Edge.</li>
<li>Built the product across a Chrome/Edge extension, Next.js web app, local-first Obsidian workflows, payments, analytics, SEO/i18n, and AI note generation.</li>
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</ul>

<h3>CTO &amp; Co-founder</h3>
<p class="role-meta">Quest | Safari quotation platform and PDF infrastructure | Kampala, Uganda; remote from Seoul | 2026 - Present</p>
<p class="role-meta">Quest | Travel planning software and documentation infrastructure | Remote, Kampala (Uganda) | 2026 - Present</p>
<ul>
<li>Co-founded Quest and lead technology plus a 3-person engineering/product team for a Next.js safari quotation platform for Uganda-based tour operators.</li>
<li>Built operator workflows for travel requests, tourists, itinerary planning, quote generation, PDF preview/export, quote email delivery, billing, analytics, and content libraries.</li>
<li>Co-founded Quest and lead technology plus a 3-person engineering/product team for a Next.js travel planning platform for tour and travel companies in Uganda.</li>
<li>Built operator workflows for travel requests, tourists, destination/accommodation/activity selection, itinerary planning, accurate pricing, quote generation, PDF preview/export, quote email delivery, billing, analytics, and content libraries.</li>
<li>Designed role-aware platform surfaces for Quest admins and tour operators using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, NextAuth v5, PostgreSQL/Supabase, and Drizzle ORM.</li>
<li>Implemented structured data workflows for destinations, activities, hotels/lodges, room rates, transport, companies, users, and geography to support more accurate quote operations.</li>
<li>Built a TypeScript/Express PDF generation service that converts quote JSON into branded A4 safari PDFs with Handlebars, Puppeteer, Cloudflare R2, per-page previews, and an in-browser pagination engine.</li>
<li>Implemented structured data workflows for destinations, activities, hotels/lodges, room rates, transport, entry fees, companies, travelers, users, and geography to support more accurate travel planning and quote operations.</li>
<li>Built a TypeScript/Express PDF generation service that converts travel quote JSON into branded A4 trip documents and quote PDFs with Handlebars, Puppeteer, Cloudflare R2, per-page previews, and an in-browser pagination engine.</li>
<li>Designed Quest's Free + Pro launch model with company-level Stripe subscriptions, full-access trials, billing settings, plan badges, and output-level gates for clean PDFs, email, and branding.</li>
<li>Established Vercel QA/release workflows across feature branches, personal QA branches, shared QA, release branches, and production; deployed PDF infrastructure via Docker/Hetzner.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Software Engineering Specialist, Human Data / AI Tutor - Software Engineering (Expert)</h3>
<p class="role-meta">xAI / Remote Technology Services | Contract | Remote, USA | May 2026 - Present</p>
<p class="role-meta">xAI / Remote Technology Services | Contract | Remote, United States | May 2026 - Present</p>
<ul>
<li>Contracted with xAI's Human Data software engineering track to create and review high-quality coding data for training, benchmarking, and advancing large language models.</li>
<li>Evaluate AI-generated code across correctness, maintainability, performance, security, test coverage, and alignment with task requirements.</li>
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<ul>
<li>Contributed to developer tools and AI/open-source ecosystems including LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Editor.js, Redux Toolkit, MemGPT, Pytube, FastAPI, and related projects.</li>
<li>Published widely used technical answers and references for WebRTC, speech-to-text, AI application patterns, and production integration issues.</li>
<li>Served as Vice President of the Ugandan Community in South Korea, supporting governance, embassy-facing communication, partnership strategy, and community engagement.</li>
<li>Served as <strong>Vice President of the Ugandan Community in South Korea</strong>, supporting governance, embassy-facing communication, partnership strategy, and community engagement.</li>
</ul>
</section>

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