Alex Hanway
Director, Alliances at Thales Cybersecurity Products
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hanway is a strategic alliances leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling global partnerships in database, big data, and cybersecurity ecosystems from San Francisco. As Director of Alliances at Thales Cybersecurity Products he manages a $20M partner portfolio and coordinates product, engineering, and go-to-market efforts with vendors like Oracle, SAP, VMware, Cloudera and Confluent. He pairs product marketing chops from prior roles at Gemalto with hands-on technical engagement—validating integrations and driving partner certifications—to translate partner engineering work into measurable revenue. A bilingual communicator (English/French) with roots in academia and nonprofit programs, he blends public speaking, research, and design skills to create compelling joint value propositions and co-marketing. He’s also contributed to the OpenEXR open-source project, extending image metadata support—an indicator of practical engineering empathy uncommon in go-to-market leaders. Colleagues describe him as a consensus-driven self-starter who consistently finds pragmatic paths to ambitious outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics French, BA Economics French at University of California, DavisMA French, MA French at University of Virginia
English, French
Github Skills (7)
image-data10
c-language10
metadata10
cprogramming-language10
openexr10
image-processing10
file-format9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr
May 2014 - Jan 2017
The OpenEXR project provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, the professional-grade image storage format of the motion picture industry.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 21 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the OpenEXR project by adding and modifying attributes related to image metadata within the `ImfStandardAttributes.cpp` and `ImfStandardAttributes.h` files. Their work involved extending the file format to accommodate the storage of additional image information, such as original data windows and related image properties. Furthermore, the user made minor code cleanup and added multi-part support in the exrstdattr.
image-storageopenexrimagesimage-processinghdr
AcademySoftwareFoundation/Imath
Jun 2014 - Jan 2017
Imath is a C++ and python library of 2D and 3D vector, matrix, and math operations for computer graphics
Contributions:14 commits in 2 years 6 months
3dcomputer-graphicscpppython3d-vector
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