Hakan Hacigumus is an experienced technology professional with a strong business acumen and deep technology insights. He has a proven track record of delivering innovation to businesses across a wide range of areas, providing leadership, strategy development, vision creation, and idea promotion. Hacigumus has extensive experience in building, leading, and managing highly talented teams in strategic and high-impact projects. He is a prolific inventor with 50+ patents (pending/issued), an author with extensive publications in premier forums, and a public speaker/evangelist.

Hacigumus has expertise in data management, data analytics, database internals, distributed systems, cloud computing, big data, business intelligence, and analytics, among others. He has worked with global teams in multi-national business settings and has a strong proficiency in software development methodologies such as agile and DevOps. Hacigumus studied Executive Education at Harvard Business School and has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Currently, Hacigumus serves as the Director of Engineering at Google. Prior to this, he was the Head of Data Management at NEC Labs, a Research Scientist at IBM Research, and a Software Engineer/Researcher at IBM Research.