# Asana Author | Frank Hidalgo

> Frank Hidalgo is CTO of StackAI, now part of Asana, and holds a PhD from UC Berkeley.

Source: https://asana.com/author/frank-hidalgo

### CTO of StackAI

Frank Hidalgo is CTO of StackAI, now part of Asana, and holds a PhD from UC Berkeley. After working across several startups, he joined StackAI in 2025 and was promoted to CTO. He led the technical due diligence for its acquisition by Asana and now leads integration work and applied AI initiatives to improve platform performance and developer velocity. His focus is on anticipating what frontier models will make possible and building the customer products and internal engineering tools to put those capabilities to work.

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Engineering

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

#### CTO of StackAI

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