Hanif Carroll

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  Genrupt

  Built AI image editing, transactional credit accounting, recoverable jobs, and permissioned MCP workflows. Helped Genrupt support its first 200 paying customers.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • PostgreSQL
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  Palabruno

  Took a Spanish-reading product from an early prototype to launch across web, iOS, and Android, building its NLP and LLM reader pipeline, teacher workflows, and subscription billing.

  • TypeScript
  • React Native
  • Expo
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  Switchboard

  An AI workflow demo on AWS. Python and LangGraph check customer change requests. The app requires human approval before applying a change and checks that events reach the new destination.

  • Python
  • LangGraph
  • AWS
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  Casamo

  Designed, built, and operate a live stay-research product, with Airbnb and Booking.com evidence, comparison views, durable searches, credit recovery, and authenticated AI client access.

  • TypeScript
  • SvelteKit
  • Cloudflare
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  BA Eventos

  Built a live AI event-discovery product that turns fragmented Buenos Aires listings into grounded search across 1,250+ upcoming events, backed by 9,200+ event records and 1,500+ venues.

  • TypeScript
  • SvelteKit
  • Svelte 5

1. Mar 2024 — Present

   Founder & AI Product Engineer · HC Studio

   Build client AI products and business workflows from requirements through integrations, UX, and launch.

   Genrupt

   Contract product engineering

   • Built an AI image editor that turns detected text into editable layers using OCR and inpainting; evaluated self-hosted models on RunPod and selected providers for latency and removal quality.
   • Prevented concurrent AI generation from overdrawing account balances through atomic PostgreSQL credit reservations, row locking, and failure cleanup.
   • Moved image generation to pg-boss jobs; made video retries reuse provider jobs and settle costs idempotently.
   • Exposed market-analysis and Amazon listing workflows through MCP, with OAuth, organization-aware access, and asynchronous results.

   • TypeScript
   • PostgreSQL
   • OCR / Inpainting
   • MCP

   Palabruno

   Contract full-stack engineering

   • Shipped iOS, Android, and web apps with Supabase, RevenueCat subscriptions, and Stripe billing.
   • Engineered a Spanish reader compiler combining NLP, linguistic rules, and constrained LLM generation to produce tappable words, phrases, and contextual learning cards, with targeted repair and regression evaluations.
   • Implemented durable text-processing workflows with persisted progress, failure recovery, and per-stage latency and model-cost tracking.

   • TypeScript
   • NLP
   • React Native
   • Stripe
2. Nov 2021 — Feb 2024

   Senior Frontend Engineer · LeagueApps, later via Nearsure

   • Modernized tournament scheduling with React on the company’s first migration team, helping establish shared frontend patterns and components.
   • Built drag-and-drop scheduling, conflict detection, and double-booking prevention, reducing organizer scheduling time by 45%.
   • Built self-service reporting with AG Grid; used virtualization and memoization for tens of thousands of rows, reducing load and interaction lag by 70%.

   • TypeScript
   • React
   • AG Grid
3. Jan 2019 — Oct 2021

   Software Engineer · Capgemini

   • Maintained five Java Spring Boot microservices for GE Aviation, collaborating across offshore teams.
   • Delivered a reporting module for Disney Cruise Line’s ship and crew management system and executive KPI dashboards for Cisco.
   • Reduced automated test-suite runtime by 60%.

   • Java
   • Spring Boot
   • TypeScript
   • Angular
   • React
4. Nov 2017 — Nov 2018

   Frontend Engineer · 8base

   • Built Jira / GitLab CI/CD automation and refactored 20+ shared UI components into a reusable library, reducing duplicate code by 30%.

   • JavaScript
   • GitLab
   • CI/CD

Hey, I’m Hanif. I’m an Applied AI Engineer with eight years of software engineering experience, building reliable AI products and systems around business workflows.

After working at 8base, Capgemini, and LeagueApps, I now run HC Studio, where I turn ambiguous ideas into useful, production-ready software.

Recent client work includes AI image editing, language-learning pipelines, billing, and recoverable background processing. I helped Genrupt support its first 200 paying customers and took Palabruno from an early prototype to launch across iOS, Android, and web.

I got into programming after Mr. Robot inspired me to learn how to code.

Outside of work, I like to lift weights, experiment with AI, and have merienda in cozy coffee shops.

1. Sep 02, 2026

   What Are You Really Installing When You Install a Skill?

   Agent skills bundle practical capabilities with assumptions about good work. The doctrine behind a skill should be visible before installation.

2. Jul 28, 2026

   Spreadsheet vs. Database: When a Growing Business Needs an Internal Tool

   Choose whether to keep your spreadsheet, add controls, use a CRM, inventory system, or work-management platform, or build custom software.

3. Jul 27, 2026

   Business Process Mapping Examples: One Service Workflow Before and After

   See one complete business process mapping example for a service company, from scattered requests and spreadsheet handoffs to one shared job record.