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OCTOBER 7, 2021

based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. She will be responsible for Auth0’s various platforms and oversee the software engineering, data and machine learning teams. He will join AI2 full-time and become an emeritus professor at UW.

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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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JUNE 27, 2024

Syndio Photo) — Nimrod Vered , a longtime engineering leader in Seattle, joined Syndio as senior vice president of engineering. Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights startup Uplevel. He previously held engineering leadership roles at Zipwhip, Microsoft, VoloMetrix, and Cisco. Nimrod Vered. Anna Olson.

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JUNE 24, 2021

The Seattle startup today named Li its new chief technology officer. 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. billion valuation in November 2019.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Axon maintains a significant engineering presence in Seattle. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. Former NASA Systems Engineer Nitin Arora is leaving Blue Origin to join SpaceX, according to a post on LinkedIn.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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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. Kissler was most recently VP of Nike Global Technology and helped lead the athletic giant’s inventory and fulfillment systems. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo).

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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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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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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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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. Farras previously spent more than 14 years at jobs platform Indeed, most recently as chief revenue officer.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The smaller integrators, including some very small “boutique” integrators, can be very agile and when you find the right ones with the right respect for your technology you should do everything possible to further the relationship. On some contracts, you may be required to commit to only interact with the government via the prime contractor.

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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. Bumble Photo) — Antoine Leblond , a former longtime Microsoft exec who was most recently senior vice president of software at Sonos, joined dating app company Bumble as chief technology officer.

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. Koepf was previously VP of engineering at Ticketmaster and led its Seattle engineering center.

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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).

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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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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? If so that is probably a better deployment of your resources than standing up a federal office.

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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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AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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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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MAY 13, 2020

Anu Engineer, CTO (left), and Mahesh Unnikrishnan, CPO, just joined SirionLabs. The company announced a $44 million investment Wednesday that will help it establish a new Seattle-area technology center led by veterans of Google, Cloudera, and more. SirionLabs Photos). SirionLabs is the latest tech company landing in Seattle.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

EV startup Canoo is losing three top executives, including its chief technology officer Peter Savagian, as part of an apparent shakeup of its leadership team. Sohel Merchant will replace Savagian as CTO. Canoo’s chief lawyer left at the same time as Kranz, too, though he wasn’t a co-founder.

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JULY 7, 2015

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

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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. headquarters in Seattle, appointed Isabelle Guis as its new CEO of North America and global chief marketing officer.

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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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JANUARY 18, 2015

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. Uber’s Seattle engineering center remains open.

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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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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).

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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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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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JANUARY 17, 2023

Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. D’Ambrosio-Correll joined home fitness startup Mirror in 2018 and led engineering. D’Ambrosio-Correll was also named a co-founder of the company as part of her hire.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

. — David Glick left his position as chief technology officer of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe. In a LinkedIn post , Glick said that he was “passing the torch” to Anthony Girolamo , Flexe senior vice president of engineering.

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JUNE 9, 2020

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