Summary
Marco Gonzalez Hierro is a seasoned technology leader with 9 years of experience leading AI, data and IoT engineering in an industrial research setting, currently heading the AI & Data department at IKERLAN. He manages over 50 researchers across Cloud Data Spaces, DataOps and AI teams and oversees a large portfolio of industry transfer and research projects, bridging GAIA-X/IDSA data space initiatives with MLOps, digital twins and quantum ML research. Marco’s background combines hands-on engineering—C/C++, Python, Linux, edge gateways, Kubernetes and cloud platforms—with product-focused project management for industrial edge, IoT and smart-grid systems. He has repeatedly scaled teams and platforms from PoC to production (e.g., industrial edge devices, secure IoT platforms and private blockchain networks) and brings uncommon cross-domain fluency spanning radio networks, embedded hardware and cloud-native architectures. Based in the Basque Country, he pairs academic grounding in telecoms with a track record of translating cutting-edge research into commercially relevant solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange program, MSc. Information Technology/Optics and Electronics, 1 semester, Exchange program, MSc. Information Technology/Optics and Electronics, 1 semester at Aarhus Universitet
Master of Engineering - MEng, Telecommunications Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Spanish, English