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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MAY 6, 2024

(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Docusign announced an agreement to acquire Lexion for $165 million, signaling plans to integrate the Seattle-based company’s AI-powered contract management technology into its Intelligent Agreement Management Platform. Lexion has more than 100 employees, according to LinkedIn.

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MAY 3, 2023

Oleria’s new CTO Siva Garudayagari. Oleria Photo) — Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. Grady Williams is joining Seattle autonomous all-terrain vehicle startup Overland AI as one of its first few engineers.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC) are pre-competed vehicles that enable any government agency to buy cost-effective, innovative solutions to meet information technology requirements. These vehicles are easy and fast for government to use, offering quick access to qualified IT service providers via streamlined contracting.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. Technical interview startup Karat appointed Amazon vet and former Expedia executive Werner Koepf as SVP of engineering. The Seattle startup offers clients a community of “Interview Engineers” who use its software to conduct first-round technical interviews. Fukiko Ogisu. 98point6 Photo).

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GeekWire

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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Apple hasn’t been all that vocal about its electric car project, but according to Bloomberg , the iPhone maker is hiring Tesla’s Autopilot software engineer to work on its EVs. He’ll report to Stuart Bowers, another Tesla ex-pat who previously served as the vice president of engineering.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Shopify Photo) — Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. Parakhin then spent five years at Russian tech giant Yandex, where he was CTO. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott joined the Shopify board last month. Mikhail Parakhin.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Cognitio is a strategic consulting and engineering firm established and managed by a team of former senior technology executives from the U.S. Government clients can now leverage all of what Cognitio offers by easy to use, pre-competed, Government Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC). Intelligence Community.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Thumu will oversee engineering operations at Seattle-based company, whose brands include vrbo, Orbitz, Hotwire, Trivago, and Hotels.com in addition to the flagship Expedia.com. Ramana Thumu, chief technology officer for Expedia Group. Expedia Photo) Ramana Thumu has taken the role of chief technology officer for Expedia Group.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. Founded a year ago by former Uber engineers who previously worked at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, Temporal has built an open-source microservices orchestration platform that can replace ad-hoc systems currently used by developers. Temporal Photo).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

On some contracts, you may be required to commit to only interact with the government via the prime contractor. Ensure you devote the right amount of time building personal relationships with government thought leaders, this is important and is a big hedge against the integrator that may seek to shut you out. CTO Gov2.0'

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MARCH 20, 2023

He also spent ten years at Intel in engineering and management roles. Gennev Photos) – — Gennev , a virtual healthcare company for women in menopause, hired three new leaders. Penny Allen joins as vice president of product and engineering. Sydney, Australia-based Appen has about 2,000 employees worldwide and its U.S.

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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 oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. based startup in June.

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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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JUNE 24, 2021

She will oversee engineering teams building Convoy’s digital freight network that matches shippers with truck drivers. Last August the company hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO. Goodale was previously CTO; he will transition to a new role overseeing the company’s carrier marketplace. .

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Expedia Photos) — Expedia Group hired two longtime leaders to run new operating divisions within the Seattle-based travel giant. Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products. Alfonso Paredes (left) and Greg Schulze. He joined audio giant Sonos in 2014.

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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. I wanted to get us out of the business of hosting our own infrastructure because these are data analysts or even data engineers, not experienced SREs,” he says.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Supio Photos) Supio , a Seattle startup founded in 2021 by longtime friends and former Microsoft engineers, raised a $25 million Series A investment to supercharge its software platform designed to help lawyers quickly sort, search, and organize case-related data. Supio co-founders Kyle Lam (left) and Jerry Zhou.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Here are some tips that can help you think through the timing of your federal office standup: List of Considerations for Deciding When to Stand Up Your Federal Office. Do you need to hire more engineers? CTO Gov2.0' If so that is probably a better deployment of your resources than standing up a federal office.

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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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TechEmpower - Information Technology

MARCH 4, 2024

At TechEmpower , we’ve used LLMs as part of marketing strategies where you can find and classify companies, personalize outreach campaigns and have personalized drip campaigns. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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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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GeekWire

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. Its total headcount is 2.3

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. Seattle recruiting startup Candidate hired Sean B House as VP of engineering and Krista Place as head of marketing. The company is now remote-first and hiring in the Seattle region.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

The Polana AI co-founders, from left: CEO Maria Zhang, Chief Scientist Steve Liu, and CTO Tim Howes. Polana Photos) A onetime Seattle startup founder who went on to lead engineering teams at Google, Meta, Yahoo, Tinder and LinkedIn, is heading up a new startup called Palona AI that builds customer-facing AI agents for retail businesses.

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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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JUNE 29, 2023

He spent more than 23 years at Microsoft in various engineering roles, then was part of the leadership teams at UiPath and Apptio during their initial public offering runs. Kummert will join Madrona’s investment team, advising product and engineering founders, the firm said. Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO.

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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. They’re all these brilliant individuals who have a lot to add beyond coding their part of the technical system.

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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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FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In response to the need for rapid improvement in agency postures, the NIH CIO-CS Government-Wide Acquisition Contract now offers Cognitio's Fast Start Cloud Computing Assessment solution.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Payscale Photos) — Compensation data company Payscale hired two new executives: Nolan Farris as president and chief operating officer, and Raj Cherukuri as chief technology officer. He took on that role after BeyondTrust acquired Bomgar Corporation, where Cherukuri was vice president of engineering.

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JUNE 9, 2020

Manny Vellon was a software engineer and Seattle startup founder legendary among colleagues and customers for his ability to find straightforward solutions to complex problems. Manny Vellon was CTO of Seattle-based technology experience design firm Level 11. An engineer at 15 years old. Photo courtesy Barry Crist).

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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.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. Its software is used by tech companies such as Compass, Intuit, Indeed, Ford and others that need help interviewing engineers. Amy Sennett (left) and Scott Bonneau recently joined Karat.

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