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

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

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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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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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Fed Tech News Roundup

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How one company is embracing agile Washington Technology (Today) - CivicActions harnesses open agile software development in its bid for the GSA's 18F agile blanket purchase agreement. It’s centered primarily around two questions: When should a business hire a CDO? WHY: The Census Bureau is gearing. sv1ambo / Flickr).

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

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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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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

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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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DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response

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Pratt has a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a professor at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Mass. What many people don’t realize is that the defense market is a very small fraction of the size of the commercial market.”.

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