Director of Emerging Technologies, Data Mesh Founder, Member of Tech Advisory Boards

Zhamak Dehghani works with Thoughtworks as the director of emerging technologies in North America, with a focus on distributed systems and big data architecture, with a deep passion for decentralized technology solutions – the foundations for democratization: data mesh, decentralized trust and identity, and networking protocols.

She founded the concept of Data Mesh in 2018, a paradigm shift in big data management toward data decentralization, and since has been evangelizing the concept with the wider industry.