Hello world, I’m Hanaan.

I am driven by transparency, accountability, and responsibility in tech.

I have analyzed privacy policies on the web, worked on decentralized data preservation, and implemented LLMs for civic tech. I’ve been a researcher, data scientist, some sort of ‘AI specialist’, and manager, primarily in the public-interest space. I’m passionate about supporting privacy, free and open-source software.

Currently, I’m a research fellow at Equitech Futures, looking at data sovereignty. I also recently trained in cybersecurity.

Funnily enough, I originally trained as a physicist. I find that it helps me probe foundational systems (atoms, the internet) with curiosity about how it works, how it fails, and what it means to be robust and reliable.