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Hannes Hapke

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Director, Open Source at Dataiku
📍 Portland, Oregon, United States

Hannes is the Director of Open Source at Dataiku and previously built the entire machine learning infrastructure from scratch at Digits. He holds a Master of Science from Oregon State University and is an OReilly author. Colleagues describe him as brilliant, flexible, and team-oriented.

He is passionate about sharing knowledge within the tech community, frequently speaking at conferences like QCon, presenting at Python meetups, and appearing on data science podcasts. His focus is on advancing the field through open collaboration and discussion on the future of AI.

Unique fact: Hannes has co-authored multiple OReilly books on building machine learning pipelines and Natural Language Processing.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Director, Open Source
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Open Source AI
As Director of Open Source at Dataiku, he actively works with and reviews new open models like Google's Gemma 4, sharing insights with the community.
ML Infrastructure
He single-handedly built the entire ML infrastructure at Digits, including end-to-end pipelines, model serving, and internal LLM hosting systems.
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Career

Work history

11-2025
Director, Open Source
Dataiku
10-2025
Advisor
Digits
5-2023
Google Developer Advisory Board Member
Google
11-2020 - 10-2025
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Digits
12-2019 - 10-2025
Creator
Project Wunderbar.ai
In the press

Media appearances

"It is essential that agentic systems move from experimentation to trusted infrastructure." – Hannes Hapke, Dataiku. Featured in TahawulTech.com
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Lessons from Running Agents in Production | Hannes Hapke, Digits. Featured in YouTube
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Education
2006 - 2009
Master of Science
Oregon State University
2003 - 2006
Electrical Engineering
University of Stuttgart
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