Hannes Hapke

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Director, Open Source at Dataiku

Portland, Oregon, United States

Overview

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.

Personality Overview

Precise But Practical

Thorough Evaluator

ROI Driven

More than the product, they care about the impact of the product.  They respond well to strong and respectful communication. They prefer to be the ones controlling the conversation or defining the terms.

Topics They Care About

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.
AI Explainability
His team at Dataiku's 575 Lab is actively building explainability models for new AI systems, demonstrating an interest in making AI more transparent.

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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Scaling Similarity Learning at Digits // Hannes Hapke // Coffee …. Featured in YouTube

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Work History

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

Education

2006 - 2009
Master of Science from Oregon State University
2003 - 2006
Electrical Engineering from University of Stuttgart

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Insights For Selling To Hannes

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Be respectful but crisp
  • Hold your ground without indulging in one-upmanship
  • When negotiating terms, help them build an impression that they are the ones calling the shots

DONT's

  • Do not hesitate from asking counter questions, just avoid challenging their authority
  • Don't try too hard to forge relationships with them
  • Don’t take too much time in sending them information if they ask for any

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Hannes is

  • Confidence in impact is paramount to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Hannes

  • If they are not convinced, they will have no hesitation in telling you the same.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Hannes move?

  • They can reach decisions fairly quickly if they are convinced.
  • Can Hannes take some risk or not?

  • They don’t mind risks but can be quite binary about them.

You And Hannes

Personality Compatibility


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