Severin Hacker

Severin Hacker is the Co-Founder and CTO at Duolingo. Severin was previously a research intern at Microsoft from May to September 2009. Prior to that, they were a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University from August 2007 to March 2014. Severin also did an internship at Actant from June to August 2004.

Severin Hacker has a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a BSc in Computer Science from ETH Zürich.

A direct report to Severin Hacker is and Natalie Glance - SVP, Engineering. They are on a team with Aparajita Singh Turton - VP, Head of Corporate Development, Strategy & Operations, Bozena Pajak - VP, Learning & Curriculum, and Jorge Mazal - Chief Product Officer. Their manager is Luis von Ahn, Founder & CEO.