resume

General Information

Full Name Hamza Kyamanywa
Date of Birth 30th October 1998
Languages English, Korean, Luganda
Nationality Uganda

Education

  • 2019 - 2023
    Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
    Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
    • GPA
      • 4.02/4.5 - Cum Laude
    • Relevant Coursework
      • Data Structures and Algorithms
      • Databases
      • Internet Programming
      • C/C++ Programming
      • Fundamentals of Data Science
      • Computational Thinking
    • Thesis
      • Distilled Model Soups
  • 2018 - 2019
    Korean Language Course
    Sunmoon University, Cheonan, South Korea
    • Achievements
      • Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK): 5/6
      • Bypassed Intermediate Level 3 and advancing directly to Advanced Level 2
      • Won 3 best student awards
    • Activities
      • Class President of the 2018 Global Korea Scholars
  • 2017 - 2018
    Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
    Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
    • GPA
      • 4.3/5 (One semester)
    • Activities
      • Unified Class President representing the Electrical, Telecommunications, and Computer Engineering departments in my inaugural year

Professional Experience

  • 2025 - present
    Technical Founder
    HoverNotes LLC
    • Building privacy-first AI video learning platform
    • Universal video platform integration
    • Chrome extension development with Manifest V3
    • Local-first architecture with Obsidian integration
    • 45+ language support with cultural adaptations
    • Technologies
      • Frontend: Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Lexical Editor
      • Backend: Python FastAPI, LangGraph, Docker, PostgreSQL
      • AI/ML: Multi-modal processing, real-time transcription
      • Browser: Chrome Extension APIs, File System Access API
  • 2024 - 2025
    Technical Lead (Freelance)
    GoGymi, Seoul South Korea
    • Architecting Textutor AI essay correction platform
    • GPT-4 integration with function calling
    • Multi-language processing (5 languages)
    • Real-time collaborative editing with Yjs
    • Processing 1000+ daily submissions
    • Technologies
      • AI/ML: OpenAI GPT-4, Google Gemini, LanguageTool
      • Frontend: Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript
      • Backend: FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Yjs
  • 2022 - 2025
    Principal AI Engineer / Technical Lead
    BEBRIDGE Inc (Slid), Seoul South Korea
    • Pioneered Auto Notes System (60% cost optimization)
    • Led Smart Live Text development (25% premium subscription increase)
    • Built AI Sliddy chatbot and Universal Export system
    • Developed multi-agent transcript correction systems
    • YouTube URL extractor and remote capture innovations
    • Key Technologies
      • AI/ML: GPT-4, Claude, LangChain, LangGraph, Pinecone
      • Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Redux
      • Backend: Python, Node.js, FastAPI, WebSocket
      • Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Redis, FFmpeg

Publications

  • 2025
    Responsible Music Genre Classification Using Interpretable Model-Agnostic Visual Explainers
    • Co-authored paper published in SN Computer Science (Springer Nature). Advanced explainable AI in music genre classification using SHAP, LIME, and ELi5 techniques. Developed responsible AI approach with CNN and Vision Transformer models achieving 80% accuracy with comprehensive model interpretability. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-024-03584-9

Open Source Contributions

  • 2019-2025
    GitHub Leadership
    • 186+ public repositories, 535+ stars, Pull Shark (x4), Pair Extraordinaire (x2) achievements
  • 2022-2025
    Stack Overflow Pioneer
    • First documented WebRTC → Cloud Speech integration, solutions helping 5,000+ developers globally, Moderator election invitation
  • 2023
    Langchain
    • A framework for developing applications powered by language models (69.9 K stars).
  • 2024
    Quivr
    • RAG AI integration framework for building AI assistants.
  • 2023
    pytube
    • A dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube videos. (9.6 K stars).
  • 2022
    Editor.JS
    • An open-source text editor that outputs clean JSON (25.1 K stars).
  • 2021
    MDN
    • An open-source, collaborative project that documents web platform technologies (8.3 K stars).

Honors and Awards

  • 2018 - 2023
    • Korea Global Scholarships
  • 2017 - 2018
    • Ugandan Government Scholarship
  • 2019
    • Korea University Academic Excellence Award

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Guitar, Soccer, Sound Engineering