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Fractional CTO Services Explained

Valerian Tech

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

GeekWire

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She was also a software developer at Amazon soon after it went public. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. He is now a VP of engineering at Google.

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Robots for hire: Dell EMC vets lead Seattle startup aiming to automate monotonous tasks

GeekWire

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. He’s joined by Chief Technology Officer Sriram Sankaran , a former group engineering manager at Amazon and senior director of engineering at Dell EMC, and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev , a former software developer at Dell EMC.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

GeekWire

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Lara Rogers.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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Serial entrepreneur Gaurav Oberoi strikes again: Lexion’s sale to Docusign shows methodical approach to building startups

GeekWire

” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. That ability to shelve an idea — after countless hours of research — is part of the reason why Oberoi has found entrepreneurial success. That’s fun.” Who is it for?

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

CIO Business Intelligence

Pivoting to tech provider JLL’s move to develop facilities management software is part of an expanded business model that has enabled the company to perform well in tough times, says Morin, who is employing a hybrid strategy for software development in which JLL Technologies will both build in-house and partner with other SaaS vendors.