Michael Hunger

CEO

Dresden, Saxony, Germany30 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Pioneered graph technology at Neo4j for over 15 years.
Java Champion and influential speaker in the tech community.
Founder of Neo4j Labs, driving innovation in graph databases.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Graph Technology and Developer Relations expert with a focus on innovative product strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementGraph DatabasesDeveloper RelationsTechnical WritingPublic Speaking

Other Skills

Developer ExperienceProduct DiscoveryProduct DevelopmentUser EngagementLarge Language Models (LLM)Neo4j Graph Data Science LibraryJavaScalaRubyIntelliJ IDEALinuxNeo4jCommunity EngagementHerokuEC2

About

🚀 Product & Innovation Leader | Graph Technology Pioneer | Java Champion 🔹 15+ years at Neo4j: From early employee to shaping the graph database industry 🔹 Founder of Neo4j Labs: Launched game-changing integrations including Graph Data Science, GraphQL, and GenAI ecosystem (neo4j.com/labs) 🔹 Developer Relations Expert: Built the team supporting 100,000s of Neo4j users globally, organized large conferences 🔹 Thought Leader: JavaChampion, "Effective Java" columnist since 2012 🔹 Author & Speaker: Published books on Spring Data Neo4j and DuckDB (mng.bz/p1dG), presented at numerous international conferences Passionate about: • Inspiring innovation in graph technology and AI architectures • Mentoring the next generation of tech leaders • Advocating for diversity in tech through initiatives like www.TechnoGirls.net Advising startups and professionals in product development and developer relations. Let's connect to explore graph technology, AI, or how to build thriving developer communities!

Experience

30 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

14 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

22 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Neo4j

6 roles

VP of Product Innovation

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Head of Product Innovation and Developer Product Strategy

Promoted

Sep 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

Excited to work with Sudhir Hasbe on new technology integration exploration (like GenAI or Cloud Integrations) and to make sure our product is as developer friendly as possible. Also initiatives like the customer advisory board (CAB) and similar for power users.

Technical WritingDeveloper ExperienceProduct DiscoveryProduct DevelopmentUser EngagementPublic Speaking+2

Sr. Director Developer Relations & User Innovation

Jan 2023 – Sep 2023 · 8 mos

Leading our 12 person developer relations team at Neo4j, empowering our Advocacy, Education and Community groups to be able to execute well and support our users worldwide. Cross organizational collaboration with Marketing, DX, PM, Field.

Developer RelationsTechnical WritingPublic SpeakingProduct Management

Senior Director User Innovation

Oct 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

Developer RelationsTechnical WritingProduct Management

Head of Spring Integration and Community Relations

May 2010 – Jan 2023 · 12 yrs 8 mos

Developer RelationsTechnical WritingPublic SpeakingGraph Databases

Lead Developer Advocate, Caretaker General of the Neo4j Community, Project Lead Spring Data Neo4j

Jan 2010 – Jan 2023 · 13 yrs

Developer RelationsTechnical WritingGraph Databases

Trifork

Program Chair GotoCon Conference

Nov 2012 – Present · 13 yrs 6 mos · Berlin Metropolitan Area

Helping to make the GotoCon conferences awesome by creating interesting tracks and inviting great speakers. Also infinite source of new ideas for the conferences and the conference app.

Sigs-datacom gmbh

Senior Writer - Columnist

May 2012 – Present · 14 yrs

Writing the bi-monthly "Effective Java" column about topics ranging from Garbage Collectors to GPU programming.

Technical Writing

Jetbrains

Board Member Developer Academy

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

Javaspecialists.eu

certified Java Specialist Master Course trainer

May 2010 – Present · 16 yrs

After a great week in Crete with Heinz Kabutz, I'm now a certified Java Specialists Master Course trainer.

Public Speaking

Infoq

Editor

Dec 2009 – Present · 16 yrs 5 mos

Developer RelationsTechnical Writing

Qi4j

Core Contributor

Jan 2008 – Present · 18 yrs 4 mos

Developer Relations

O'reilly media

Book Reviewer

Jan 2005 – Present · 21 yrs 4 mos

Regular book reviewer, titles:
Graph Algorithms
Graph Databases
The Art of Readable Code
Apprenticeship Patterns
From other publishers:
Refactoring 2nd Edition [Pearsons]
NOSQL-Distilled [Pearsons]
Domain Specific Languages [Pearsons]
Neo4j in Action [Manning]
Pragmatic Guide to Git [PragProg]

Technical Writing

Atns gmbh

Freelance Consultant

Jan 2004 – Present · 22 yrs 4 mos

c# development for mobile platforms (MDA - MODAS)
java web development for central management of mobile services
consulting for new (java) technologies

Salt solutions gmbh

Independent Consultant

Jan 1997 – Dec 2010 · 13 yrs 11 mos

Developer RelationsTechnical WritingPublic Speaking

Technische universität dresden

Research Assistant at PDAI

Oct 1995 – Jan 2004 · 8 yrs 3 mos

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