GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Axon maintains a significant engineering presence in Seattle. Former NASA Systems Engineer Nitin Arora is leaving Blue Origin to join SpaceX, according to a post on LinkedIn. Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

million in a seed funding round to continue work on its self-titled feedback management platform for game developers. Audiences are diversifying tremendously,” co-founder and CEO Sean Vesce tells GeekWire, “and more developers are realizing [the value of] building a game in lockstep with an audience from the earliest stages of development.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Theo AI co-founders Alex Alben, center, Patrick Ip, right, and CTO Tiago Luchini. The company plans to use the cash to enhance its prediction engine, expand practice categories, and accelerate customer growth. CTO Tiago Luchini has been a founder and tech leader across fintech, retail and biotech. million in pre-seed funding.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. He previously worked as VP of platform engineering at Paris-based carpooling platform BlaBlaCar and was an engineer at Chef Software. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. Portland, Ore.-based

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The former CEO of Ada Developers Academy said she will focus on Conduit’s health and performance vertical. “Ada was at a transitional point given the dramatic contraction in the tech talent market, and I am a builder/growth stage leader,” Sato told GeekWire. Kirkland, Wash. Kirkland, Wash.-based

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MARCH 4, 2024

TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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MARCH 3, 2021

After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. My goal is to help Kalshi achieve its full potential by combining the agility and focus of a startup with battle-tested engineering practice.”. Courtney Kissler.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Tina-Marie Gulley, CEO of Ada Developers Academy. Ada Photo) Tina-Marie Gulley is now CEO for Ada Developers Academy after serving as interim chief executive since April. Seattle-based Ada is a tuition-free, software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities.

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APRIL 19, 2023

From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Lexion Photo) Lexion gained a foothold by using artificial intelligence to help legal departments manage contracts. Lexion has established itself as a leader in the legal tech and contract management sectors.

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JUNE 29, 2023

He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said. Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath. Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The startup develops virtual assistants for sales, marketing and customer service teams. Technical interview startup Karat appointed Amazon vet and former Expedia executive Werner Koepf as SVP of engineering. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

Matt Doka, CTO of FiveStars, a marketing platform for small businesses, doesn’t like that trade-off and goes out of his way to outsource whatever he can. The net effect was that the data analysts spent most of their time just keeping the system running. They struggled to get new data insights developed into analyses,” he says.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Seattle AI development studio Simply Augmented hired Larry Arnstein as CTO and Ashwin Kadaru as vice president of engineering. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture. Penta previously worked at Amazon and Microsoft.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prophia , a startup building a platform that scours and extracts key terms from commercial real estate contracts, raised $10.2 Prophia’s users can upload PDF contracts that are analyzed by its software. Lexion , Advocat , and Clearbrief help legal teams sift through different types of contracts. Cameron Steele. million.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. Binde previously held senior engineering roles at Google, Nordstrom and Persistent Systems. She was also a software developer at Amazon soon after it went public. He is now a VP of engineering at Google.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. “We’re providing a much simpler model for developers,” he said. Temporal Photo).

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MARCH 15, 2022

The new positions in Seattle will primarily be data scientists and software engineers according to a career page list of current openings. Walmart is hiring right in the backyard of rival Amazon, which is based in Seattle and last year surpassed Walmart as the largest retail seller outside China.

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APRIL 3, 2023

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. Aivot Photo) A trio of former Dell EMC engineers are building a fleet of rentable robots to help companies crank out monotonous tasks amid a lingering labor shortage. Users designate work through Aivot’s companion app.

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APRIL 28, 2023

(NetEase Photo) Chinese technology company NetEase announced this week that it plans to open a new game development studio in Seattle called Anchor Point Studios. Its studio head and CEO, Paul Ehreth , is a veteran game developer who worked at Microsoft and 343 Industries on games like Halo 4 and 2007’s Shadowrun.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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AUGUST 3, 2023

Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Preeti Somal joined Seattle startup Temporal as SVP of engineering. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

He was previously executive vice president of engineering and CTO at tax software giant Avalara, and also led teams at Microsoft and Concur. Aaron Bilyeu joined Cloverleaf Infrastructure as its chief development officer. Bilyeu previously worked for Meta as the senior director of site development for its data centers worldwide.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. We have some of the best Linux engineers and we can’t leave them behind.”

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JUNE 25, 2024

Billed as a “global compliance engine,” the k-ID suite is designed to help game developers comply with age-related regulations. k-ID aims to address a developing issue in international media markets. Mandhar is one of two Seattle-based k-ID employees, with plans to hire more in the near future.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

So he decided to launch a startup to develop one. The company, Yardstick , is making its debut today with a browser-based app that leads companies and hiring managers through the process of structured job interviews. Yardstick leads hiring managers through the process of structured interviews.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 9, 2021

Instacart has been building out its advertising business and reportedly hired more than 50 former Facebook employees based on LinkedIn data compiled by Silicon Valley tech news site The Information. The 9-year old company also turned to the Pacific Northwest for talent hiring former Porch executive Asha Sharma as COO in February.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

“I’ve spent my career supporting game developers, first on the creative side, then with backend services at PlayFab, and most recently at Microsoft,” Gwertzman wrote on LinkedIn. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Thomas, and CTO JP Monteiro in Zurich. He was announced as Veezoo’s new board member Monday, joining its three co-founders on the four-person board: brothers Marcos Monteiro (CEO) and JP Monteiro (CTO), and Till Haug (COO). With that, it’s also planning to hire in the U.S., Veezoo Photo.)

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Once an enterprise has decided to go down the path of building native mobile apps, there is one critical decision involved –whether to build these apps in-house or to outsource development. In the series, this third post will be useful when the choice has been made to develop native apps. The Project Plan for the CTO.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

… Read More Amazon hires Covariant founders, inks licensing deal with AI startup in latest ‘reverse acquihire’ Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for advanced warehouse robotics systems. … Read More . … Read More

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

As a result, many corporate leaders who are used to hiring for IT now have to learn what makes a good product manager as they seek to fill these roles. We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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MAY 8, 2024

” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. James Baird , a longtime engineer and also an AI2 entrepreneur-in-residence, joined as another co-founder, adding more crucial technical expertise. That’s fun.”

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Rivas is the co-founder and former CTO of Limeade, an employee experience software company based in the Seattle area that went public in 2019 via the Australian stock market. He also serves as co-founder and CTO of Keme IX , a “Chakra Healing Hotel & Holistic Center” in Tulum, Mexico. per month and $69.99

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APRIL 28, 2021

Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. A longtime engineering leader at Rover, he left the pet care startup last year and served as VP of engineering at virtual healthcare startup 98point6 for less than a year. Scott Porad. Dolly Photo). based drugstore.com.

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