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Tech Moves: Microsoft leader joins Shopify as CTO; StraighterLine taps Seattle tech vet as CEO

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(Shopify Photo) — Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. Parakhin spent the past five years at Microsoft leading artificial intelligence efforts and teams working on Bing, Edge browsers, advertising, web services, and more. Matt Hulett.

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Tech Moves: Salesforce-backed Oleria hires CTO; Microsoft vet joins Lyra Health; and more

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Oleria’s new CTO Siva Garudayagari. Oleria Photo) — Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. He worked in various roles at Microsoft, where he helped build the SQL server, incubated multiple Azure platform services, and integrated third-party services onto the cloud.

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Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

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(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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Tech Moves: Google exec departs; Syndio adds engineering leader; JPMorgan CTO leaves F5 board

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Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights startup Uplevel. He previously held engineering leadership roles at Zipwhip, Microsoft, VoloMetrix, and Cisco. ” — Chris Vonderhaar , a former Amazon Web Services executive who joined Google Cloud last year , has left the Silicon Valley company.

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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. 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. He previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more

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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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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. 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