Hanif Carroll

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Founder & Lead Product Engineer

HC Studio

Mar 2024 - Current (2 years 8 months)

• Solo product studio building AI-powered web and mobile products for early-stage founders — owning discovery, MVP scoping, UX, full-stack build (TypeScript/React/Next.js/React Native), billing, and launch.
• Scaled Genrupt from AI-media MVP to production Amazon Creative Ops platform, landing its first 100+ paying customers; built agent/MCP workflows, async job processing, and credit-based billing.
• Took Palabruno from founder idea to live on the App Store, Google Play, and web — owning product, UX, and full-stack engineering for AI reading features, teacher workflows, and subscription billing.

Senior Front End Engineer

Nearsure

Feb 2023 - Feb 2024 (1 year 1 month)

• Senior contract engineer continuing LeagueApps work: a youth-sports platform serving 3,000+ organizations and 10M+ players, parents, and coaches, processing billions in transactions.
• Built flexible reporting screens with AG Grid so organizers could analyze event and registration data without engineering support.
• Optimized rendering of large reporting grids (tens of thousands of rows) with virtualization and memoization, reducing load and interaction lag by 70% for high-volume organizations.

Front End Engineer

LeagueApps

Nov 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 4 months)

• Reduced organizer scheduling time by 45% by building drag-and-drop calendar workflows, automated conflict detection, and double-booking prevention for multi-team seasons and tournaments.
• Eliminated recurring double-bookings in complex multi-team scheduling via proactive conflict detection and in-app alerts, improving reliability for organizers.
• Standardized the frontend with reusable, Storybook-documented components as the team scaled from ~70 to ~150 engineers.

Software Engineer

Capgemini

Jan 2019 - Oct 2021 (2 years 10 months)

• Led end-to-end delivery of a critical reporting module for Disney Cruise Line’s ship and crew management system while building additional UI screens that streamlined daily operational workflows for ship staff and management.
• Designed and built executive KPI dashboards for Cisco, enabling leadership to visualize system performance and make data-driven decisions.
• Maintained five Java Spring Boot microservices for GE Aviation, collaborating across offshore teams.
• Cut automated test-suite runtime 60%, significantly improving release velocity.

Front End Engineer

Archie Labs

Nov 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 1 month)

• Developed custom CI/CD scripting integrating Jira and GitLab to automate ticket state transitions, streamlining the developer-to-QA handoff pipeline and reducing average ticket close time by 15%.
• Built a comprehensive automated testing suite that minimized manual QA bottlenecks and drastically improved production software stability.
• Refactored 20+ shared UI components into a reusable component library, reducing duplicate code by 30% and cutting implementation time for new features by approximately one-third.

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