By Enes Akar

Co-founder & CTO, Hazelcast Cloud

Enes was one of the early developers of Hazelcast. He joined the company in 2011 with a passion for making distributed computing incredible simple. From 2012 to 2017, he headed the engineering team as VP of Engineering. Since 2017, he has led the development of Hazelcast Cloud, which is enterprise-grade Hazelcast software as a fully managed service in the cloud. Prior to joining Hazelcast, Enes worked in software development and software engineering at telecommunications companies, including Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and an MBA from Bogazici University, Istanbul.