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Christopher Hein

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Field CTO at Google
📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States

Christopher is the Field CTO at Google Public Sector, where he leads his engineering team to help state and local governments adopt transformative technology. With a Masters from DePaul University, his expertise is in leveraging AI, big data, and SaaS to modernize IT and better serve constituents.

Beyond his professional focus, Christopher is passionate about seeing technology cut through red tape to make a real impact on communities. He has a stated interest in scotch, blending a technical focus with personal pursuits. His work is driven by a desire to bring the best possible technologies to public servants.

He believes the key challenge for government agencies isnt a lack of data, but the inability to derive meaningful insight from it.

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Experience
20 Years
Current Role
Field CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Greater Chicago Area, United States
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AI in Government
His recent posts focus heavily on the on-the-ground realities of implementing AI, particularly Agentic AI, to solve challenges in the public sector.
Data-driven Insights
He champions the idea of moving from simply collecting data to "conversing with it" to enable governments to take real, impactful action based on new insights.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Field CTO
Google
4-2022 - 1-2025
Director of Customer Engineering
Google
9-2017 - 4-2022
Customer Engineering Manager
Google
1-2014 - 10-2017
Cloud Customer Engineer
Google
12-2011 - 10-2012
Director of Software Development
NCSA Athletic Recruiting
In the press

Media appearances

The Last Word: Google's Chris Hein Speaking at the Convergence AI Dallas Conference. Featured in Dallas Innovates
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Google's Chris Hein on how AI is changing how citizens relate to government. Featured in FedScoop
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Education
2003 - 2004
Masters
DePaul University
1998 - 2002
BA
Luther College
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