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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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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. He also spent a year at Code.org as director of software engineering. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo). Kelly Breslin Wright. Gong raised $200 million in August at a $2.2

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The Seattle startup offers clients a community of “Interview Engineers” who use its software to conduct first-round technical interviews. She previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. . Hillsboro, Ore.-based

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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). million.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

. — 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 previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft.

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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. He spent the past 11 years as a principal program manager lead for Microsoft Azure.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Former Microsoft CVP Carolyn Everson will take over as president of San Francisco-based grocery delivery company Instacart in September. At Microsoft, she led global ad sales and strategy. 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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AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Microsoft Photo). Athira Pharma recently appointed Rachel Lenington as CTO and head of product development strategy and Mark Worthington as general counsel. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO.

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MAY 20, 2024

SeekOut Photo) SeekOut , a Seattle-area startup that sells recruiting software and raised $115 million in 2022, is trimming its workforce for the second time in the past eight months. SeekOut previously laid off 7% of its staff in October, and said it had about 200 employees at the time. SeekOut CEO and co-founder Anoop Gupta.

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JUNE 27, 2024

Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights startup Uplevel. He previously held engineering leadership roles at Zipwhip, Microsoft, VoloMetrix, and Cisco. Sri Shivananda , recently named global CTO at JPMorgan Chase, resigned from the board of Seattle application delivery giant F5.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Microsoft gaming exec James Gwertzman has joined Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner on the consumer investing team. Gwertzman founded gaming infrastructure startup PlayFab, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and sold Sprout Games to PopCap Games in 2005. and merged with Payfactors earlier this year.

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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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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. Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems. The 25-year veteran of Microsoft left in August to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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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. Still, for business leaders without a strong technical background, cloud computing can seem almost impenetrable.

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MARCH 4, 2024

FUSE founding partner Kellan Carter (bottom row, fifth from left) recently visited India and stopped at the Chennai offices of Zuper, the Seattle-based software startup. FUSE recently led a $32 million Series B investment in Zuper, a Seattle-based field operations software startup that has co-founders and employees based in India.

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MAY 7, 2021

ai, Athenahealth, and Blue Yonder, previously known as JDA Software. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. . He was previously a senior director of product management at Smartsheet and Microsoft.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

The tech: SeekOut’s software is used by more than 1,000 companies such as UiPath and Experian to help with recruiting. The software also features built-in diversity filters at a time when companies are looking to accelerate DEI efforts. .” SeekOut tripled headcount last year and now employs 120 people.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

based cybersecurity startup Polyverse raised another $16 million to help sell its software used by government organizations, defense companies, and more. The startup recently signed a partnership with SUSE , the world’s largest independent open source software company. Its software runs on-premise, in the cloud, and on IoT devices.

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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

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022.

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MARCH 9, 2021

From left to right: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta; SeekOut CTO Aravind Bala; Madrona Venture Group Managing Director and SeekOut board member S. New funding: Seattle startup SeekOut raised $65 million to fuel growth of its recruiting software. Other co-founders include Vikas Manocha and John Tippett , who both also worked at Microsoft.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. He previously worked at Microsoft, HP and Altair.

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JULY 27, 2023

Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. Phillips left Microsoft last year after spending a decade at the Redmond, Wash., Last year, Phillips joined Stripe after leaving Microsoft but departed one month later.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. Microsoft Photo).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Penta previously worked at Amazon and Microsoft. 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.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s risky.”

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APRIL 3, 2023

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. Aivot CEO Shashwat Srivastav founded the startup after working as vice president of engineering at Dell EMC, and as principal development lead at Microsoft Azure.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm, announced a formal advisory board drawing from industry experts and past mentors. The inaugural advisory board members, all from within the Microsoft organization, include: • Distinguished Scientist Matthias Troyer. • GitHub CTO Jason Warner. GitHub CTO Jason Warner.

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JUNE 9, 2021

As vice president of interview delivery, she will focus on improving Karat’s interviewing process to help companies stay ahead on hiring engineers. Karat helps software engineering teams with the first round of technical interviews. Exceptionly, a software engineer hiring platform, added Ergul Civi as co-founder and COO.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Former Microsoft Corporate Vice President Marc Brown joined EQT as a partner and global head of EQT Growth, a new strategic initiative focused on technology. At Microsoft, Brown oversaw corporate development, M&A and strategic investments including the company’s acquisitions of LinkedIn and GitHub. tech giant.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

F5 Photo) — Seattle-based networking and security giant F5 hired John Maddison as chief product marketing and technology alliances officer. The company named Cooper Werner as its new chief financial officer, and moved Kunal Anand from CTO to the position of chief innovation officer. F5 plans to hire a new CTO.

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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. Oberoi made hundreds of calls to lawyers, paralegals, contract managers, consultants, and various other stakeholders. He learned that companies were struggling to track contracts.

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JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Announcing the new “Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer” service in a virtual event on Wednesday afternoon, Oracle executive chairman, CTO and co-founder Larry Ellison called out the company’s cloud rivals in his trademark competitive style. Oracle photo).

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (left) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Space Foundation and Microsoft Photos) The buzz in tech circles over the past few days is all about “Founder Mode.” “Their advice could be optimistically summarized as ‘hire good people and give them room to do their jobs.’

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JULY 15, 2021

“Our AI-enabled phone automation delivers productivity, intelligence and decision support to healthcare teams, getting [providers] off the phone and back to helping patients,” co-founder and CTO Ben Hesketh said. The third co-founder, VP of engineering Andrew Palmer, was previously a software developer at Microsoft, Moz and Rover.

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