Paul Hunkin
Founder CEO at Jsonify
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Hunkin is a founder and hands-on software engineer with 16 years of experience building AI agents, SaaS products, and embedded/distributed systems across startups and blue-chip organizations. Now based in Lisbon, he leads Jsonify and consults widely, applying a blend of research-grade systems thinking (MPhil, University of Waikato) and product-first startup pragmatism. His background ranges from autonomous drones and high-performance distributed rendering to one of the earliest commercial agentic QA platforms (quacks.ai), and he’s contributed Android support to the SDL multimedia library. Paul has founded and scaled companies across Africa, Asia and Europe, raised institutional startup funding, and repeatedly turns vague problems into deployable, production-grade software. Notably, he combines deep low-level engineering with recent expertise in generative AI agents to automate complex workflows and data extraction at scale.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Computer Science, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Computer Science at The University of WaikatoBCMS (hons), Software Development, 1st class honors, BCMS (hons), Software Development, 1st class honors at University of Waikato
English
Github Skills (8)
jna10
c-language10
opengl-es10
mobile-development10
cprogramming-language10
android10
android-development10
sdl10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SDL-mirror/SDL
May 2010 - Aug 2010
Automated mirror of https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:33 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions primarily involve building the SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) library for the Android platform. They added Android-specific configurations, build scripts, and a partially implemented video backend, which included initial rendering and surface management. Furthermore, the user integrated keyboard and touch event handling and implemented accelerometer input, along with related modifications to the SDL code. The user also added a test project to demonstrate functionality on Android.
sdl
bieh/mintlify-docs
Mar 2025 - Jul 2025
Contributions:215 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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