Rick Hank has extensive experience in software engineering, having spent 14 years at Hewlett-Packard as a System Software Engineer from June 1996 to May 2010, followed by a role as a Software Engineer at Google starting in June 2010. Rick Hank holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, both obtained from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with the doctoral degree earned between 1993 and 1996 and the master's degree earned from 1990 to 1993.