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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. Bill Cox , a longtime Microsoft business leader , joined Lyra Health as its vice president of product marketing.

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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: Expedia taps execs to run new divisions; Bumble hires Microsoft vet as CTO

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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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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. She was most recently chief communications officer at police body camera giant Axon, and previously worked for Tesla in investor relations. — Anna Olson.

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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

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(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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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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