Teachers, tinkering and tenacity – that’s how Michael Hagen came to work for one of the world’s biggest and far-reaching companies.
Hagen, 36, is a software engineer at Google in Seattle. He grew up in Haines, spending his childhood at the big stone house on Union Street, attending Haines School and tinkering with circuit boards, mechanical components and computers. After graduating Haines High School, he attended Stanford University for electrical engineering and later received his…