Severin Hacker
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| Intro | Computer scientist | |
| Places | Switzerland | |
| is | Business executive Computer scientist Businessperson Software engineer Technology executive | |
| Work field | Business Technology Science | |
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| Birth | 1984, Zug, Canton of Zug, Switzerland | |
| Age | 41 years |
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Severin Hacker (born 1984) is a Swiss computer scientist who is the co-founder and CTO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform.
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Hacker was born and raised in Zug and studied at ETH Zurich. He moved to Pittsburgh to study at Carnegie Mellon University where he co-founded Duolingo with Luis von Ahn in 2009.