Summary
Sina Heshmati is a data governance specialist and technologist with 15 years of experience helping organizations build profitable, responsible data ecosystems. He blends hands-on engineering roots—from contributions to Apache Forrest and early XML tooling—to senior presales and advisory roles at Collibra and AI Markets Group, guiding enterprise AI and data strategy. As a Data Management Consultant and board advisor, he focuses on aligning data citizens’ rights and responsibilities with practical governance, compliance, and adoption challenges. Based in the UK, he pairs a computer science background from Vrije Universiteit Brussel with a coder’s curiosity (GitHub bio: “Can code and will code more”), making him equally fluent in technical implementation and cross-functional stakeholder engagement.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Université libre de Bruxelles
Computer Science, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
English, French, Dutch, Persian, Arabic