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Gregory Hamel

Calgary,AB

Summary

Innovative software professional

Software engineer / architect / entrepreneur with 25 years experience in new product and technology development.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

VP Engineering / Principal Engineer

Lately.AI
New York City, New York
11.2016 - Current

Principal Engineer at Lately.ai. Reporting to the CTO, I authored and contributed to features in all areas of the product at the client and server, including social media content creation, scheduling, publishing, and analytics; media ingestion, transcription, captioning, and clipping; AI integration for content generation and customer voicing; using Node, AngularJS and Vue. Proposed and delivered a scalable AWS-based task execution and management framework; oversaw releases; maintained infrastructure; and supported the sales team.

Founder

IT Actual Software Solutions
Calgary, Alberta
01.2013 - 11.2016

Consulting for various Upwork clients and Internal development of a general purpose collaboration framework.

Upwork Profile: https://www.upwork.com/fl/gregoryh

(Specific clients and reviews visible with Upwork login)

trylately.com (now lately.ai), 1233 hours

Delivered early features for lately.ai, including calendar and social media integration encompassing passport based authentication, social media publishing / import / reconciliation and initial analytics on MEAN technology stack.

"Having worked with many freelancers on Upwork, Greg is well worth his hourly rate because he delivers work extremely quickly (3-4X the speed of others) that requires no rewriting and he requires very little management."

dubsado.com, 152 hours

Delivered various refinements to a PDF based e-forms framework on MEAN technology stack.

"Greg was hands down one of the best programmers I have yet to work with. He is extremely knowledgeable and is able to get the job done every time. I look forward to working with him again!"

nunavuthousing.ca, 814 hours

Contributed to various core features of a property and tenant management SAAS on SailsJS / knockoutJS / mySQL technology stack.

"Greg Hamel is a very knowledgeable and strong javascript and Node.js developer. His skills have been invaluable to our project. He was able to integrate with our existing team using our existing JIRA and GIT development environment and was contributing to the project immediately. Without his addition to our project we would most certainly not have as robust an application as we have now."

CTO

IT Actual Sdn. Bhd.
Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia
07.2006 - 09.2012

Lead for technology development and integration initiatives within a small group of companies headquartered in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Assisted with design and integration issues, authored project plans and grant proposals, oversaw a small distributed team through R&D initiatives in JavaSE and JQueryMobile, authored patent applications (2 granted).

Integration Architect

Groundswell
Calgary, AB
05.2005 - 05.2006

Design lead for a data integration effort to consolidate person / place / thing records from numerous internal and external sources into a single canonical source of truth, for use company wide, within Encana resources. Delivered data and process models for use by a corporate implementation team.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University Of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta

Diploma - Electronic Engineering Technology

Devry Institute Of Technology
Calgary

Skills

  • Software architecture and development
  • JavaScript and Nodejs
  • AI technolgies
  • Database technologies
  • Web design and frameworks
  • Version control and collaboration
  • Cloud services and payment integration
  • Audio and video processing
  • Social media APIs
  • Communication skills

Timeline

VP Engineering / Principal Engineer

Lately.AI
11.2016 - Current

Founder

IT Actual Software Solutions
01.2013 - 11.2016

CTO

IT Actual Sdn. Bhd.
07.2006 - 09.2012

Integration Architect

Groundswell
05.2005 - 05.2006

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University Of Alberta

Diploma - Electronic Engineering Technology

Devry Institute Of Technology
Gregory Hamel