Hannah Howard

About

I am a senior developer who can solve hard technical problems and lead teams of programmers to bring projects to completion.

Experience

• Head of Engineering at Filecoin Foundation
  May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

• CTO at Storacha
  Jul 2024 - May 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Director of Engineering - Saturn and Web3.Storage at Protocol Labs
  Oct 2023 - Jul 2024 · 10 mos

  - Leading GTM strategy and implementation for Saturn Web3 CDN and web3.storage

• Senior Distributed Systems Engineer at Protocol Labs
  May 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  - Team lead for Lassie, the IPFS/Filecoin universal retrieval client - Lead implementor of the Graphsync Web3 data transfer protocol - Wrote most of software powering deal making for the Filecoin network launch - Contributor to Lotus, primary Filecoin implementation

• Carbon Five (5 yrs)
  • Principal Developer
    Dec 2018 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Overview: • General purpose software engineering using a variety of languages, frameworks, and tools for multiple clients • Languages: Java, Javascript, Typescript, Ruby, Swift, Elixir, Python, Go • Major Frameworks: Angular, React, Rails, Spring, Django, Cocoa, ReactiveX, Phoenix Highlights: • Technical anchor on multiple client projects • Major Contributor to IPFS & Filecoin, two very large open source Web3 projects

  • Senior Developer
    Jun 2016 - Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Overview: • General purpose software engineering using a variety of languages, frameworks, and tools for multiple clients • Languages: Java, Javascript, Typescript, Ruby, Swift, Elixir, Python • Major Frameworks: Angular, React, Rails, Spring, Django, Cocoa, ReactiveX, Phoenix Highlights: • Lead 10 person dev team on client project for 8 months • Technical anchor on multiple client projects • Performed concurrency optimization within a Java-based micro-service architecture for an enterprise client • Built native iOS client project from scratch