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APRIL 11, 2024

(Talkdesk Photo) — Munil Shah , a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. million investment round.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle Photo) Oracle announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services on Monday afternoon that will further integrate its database offerings and cloud infrastructure with the Seattle tech giant’s cloud platform. Cloud services revenues rose 21% to $5.6

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

. — Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. Kirk Dickinson as chief financial officer.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2024

LinkedIn Photo) — Baskar Sridharan , a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team. He will remain on the board of the digital remittance company he helped start in 2011.

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2024

Momento Images) Seattle startup Momento , which offers infrastructure tools to help companies speed up software development processes, raised a $15 million Series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The company, founded in 2021 by former Amazon Web Services engineers, enables faster access to databases and facilitates messaging at scale.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Selvan Senthivel, chief technology officer for Symbl. Selvan Senthivel is the new chief technology officer for the 6-year-old Seattle startup. Senthivel was most recently CTO for GE HealthCare and was previously part of AI engineering leadership at Amazon Web Services, among other roles.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Informatica provides many other capabilities worth note, including cloud integration and data management capabilities that work with providers like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (including Redshift).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and made it clear that Amazon’s own ambitions increasingly extend well beyond its core cloud capabilities.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 15, 2025

Outreach Chief Marketing Officer Holly Simmons (left), and Chief Revenue Officer Nadia Rashid. Outreach Photos) Seattle sales automation company Outreach added two leaders to its C-suite: Chief Revenue Officer Nadia Rashid and Chief Marketing Officer Holly Simmons.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2025

(Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is creating a new engineering division, led by the former global head of engineering at Facebook (now Meta), that will be responsible for building fundamental AI technologies and tools for the company and its customers. Nadella described the company’s focus on AI agents as part of the memo.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2024

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sits down for a wide-ranging conversation on the GeekWire Podcast at Amazon in Seattle, focusing on issues including AI and social responsibility. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Early versions of generative AI were “like a dancing bear,” says Werner Vogels , the Amazon chief technology officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

But for Koch Industries, a $115 billion global conglomerate that has acquired five companies in two years, including Infor for $13 billion in 2020, connecting those acquisitions’ networks to its own sprawling network has been a challenge of another magnitude. Matt Hoag, CTO of business solutions, Koch Industries Koch Industries.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

(HackerOne Photo) Kara Sprague , chief product officer at F5, was named CEO at San Francisco-based cybersecurity company HackerOne. The company, founded in 2012, raised a $49 million Series E round in 2022. . She is a board director at Trimble, a publicly traded tech company. “As Bellevue, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 14, 2024

. — Jon Jenkins , who previously led Amazon’s cashierless technology efforts, joined mobility giant Lime as its new chief technology officer. Schmitz previously spent more than nine years with Amazon Web Services.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New companies are sprouting up every week, and it can be hard to keep up. Many established startups are ranked among the GeekWire 200 , our list of top privately held tech companies in Seattle and across the Pacific Northwest. Send us an email at tips@geekwire.com to flag other companies or startup news we should know about.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

The CODA Farm Technologies’ founding team, pictured at Wallace Farms, from left to right: Connor Wallace, chief technology officer; Gabe Martin, lead hardware engineer; David Wallace, CEO; and Daniel Oschrin, lead software developer. CODA Farm Technologies Photo). million in venture capital.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Structure Conference is bringing together the world’s leading cloud technology companies, hot startups, and business leaders for two days of high-level thought leadership. This year’s conference will also build on Bryan Cantrill’s presentation (Joylent CTO) on the history, state, and use of containers. Arlette Hart, CISO, FBI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 15, 2022

DTN is more than just a weather forecaster: It also offers decision-support services to companies in agriculture, energy, commodities, and the finance industry. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute. The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company helps entrepreneurs raise funding without going the traditional route of venture capital. “I’m passionate about the company’s mission,” Widner told GeekWire via email. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The Redmond, Wash.,

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Amazon Web Services vice president Raju Gulabani departed last month, as reported by The Information. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. His appointment expands the Seattle-based company’s board from ten to 11 members. portfolio company.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

From their press release: Pentaho to Deliver On Demand Big Data Analytics at Scale on Amazon Web Services and Cloudera. Hitachi to acquire Big Data analytics company Pentaho (sdtimes.com). Big Data CTO Amazon Web Services Hitachi Data Systems Pentaho Quentin Gallivan' Pentaho has just announced version 5.3

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

She will serve on the nominating and corporate governance committee and as the company’s national security director, a role required through the wireless carrier’s merger with Sprint. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Call it the Clash of the Cloud Titans: Today Microsoft is taking the wraps off Azure Orbital , a cloud-based satellite data processing platform that competes with Amazon Web Services’ Ground Station offering. ” Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The company offers a “vision language model” that can answer questions about images. ” Allen previously spent seven years at Amazon Web Services, where he helped build AWS IQ, a marketplace for on-demand AWS talent, as well as internal sales products. .” million in a pre-seed round.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round.

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2021

. “As the first hyperscale cloud service provider to join this member organization, we will share our unique global threat insights to protect critical infrastructure and strengthen cybersecurity expertise in the space community,” Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure Global, said today in a blog posting.

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2017

Major cloud infrastructure services like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services have fueled new hiring strategies, with 81% of enterprises adopting DevOps strategies and engineers. Companies offering public and hybrid cloud solutions addressed these problems by fundamentally changing the pricing structure of computing power.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

Six-year Oracle veteran Clay Magouyrk is the new executive vice president in charge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, based in Seattle, reporting to co-founder Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer. Photo by Marc Fiorito / Gamma Nine Photography, via Oracle.). Synergy Research Group Chart).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

(LinkedIn Photos) A pair of Amazon alum is raising cash for a new startup that helps enterprises build and deploy secure artificial intelligence applications, preventing company data from slipping through the cracks. Its tools give companies a way to safely build large language models, including conversational, copilot, and autonomous agents.

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JANUARY 18, 2015

Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Millworks Analytics Photo) Former Tableau CFO Damon Fletcher is coming out of retirement to launch a startup that helps tech companies get a hold of their cloud costs amid a surge in spending driven by artificial intelligence. Fletcher recruited former Tableau colleague Michael Arvold to be the company’s co-founder and CTO.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on a live stream from Redmond, announcing plans to expand their partnership with a new service called Oracle Database@Azure. where Microsoft is based, which speaks in part to fierce nature of the longtime rivalry between the companies.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

That’s the message today from Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates, who says recent price cuts on dedicated virtual machine instances from rival Amazon Web Services have led to confusion about “dedicated” products. By: Jason Verge July 16th, 2013. The strategy worked well. White Papers.

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JULY 22, 2021

Summary: Web services help different applications communicate with each other–regardless of platform or technology. Learn how web services can help your business increase efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, and much more! Is your business capitalizing on the power of web APIs?

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