Firat is an adjunct professor at the University of Manchester and a Senior Product Manager in Google Cloud. Firat has over 20 years of experience in designing and delivering bespoke information systems for some of the world's largest research, education, telecommunications, finance and retail organizations. Following roles within National Supercomputing Services and National Centre for Text Mining, he has over 30 publications in the areas of Parallel Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Communications.