GeekWire

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 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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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Kelly Waldher (Google Photo). Microsoft alum Kelly Waldher has joined Google as vice president of marketing for G Suite. During his time at Microsoft, Waldher held various roles on the Office 365 team. At the time of his departure, he was general manager of Microsoft 365. based job marketplace for hourly workers.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Niantic, the maker of Pokémon Go and a Google spinout, is based in San Francisco, Calif., Quinn was previously head of product at payment company Square and held various positions at Google, working on Google Maps and other location-based products. The Seattle office will initially hire 10 employees.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

million investment led by NEA , representing a vote of confidence by the longtime venture capital firm in the Seattle startup’s software development tools for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud. Other recent hires include Lee-Ming Zen as VP of engineering, building out a technology team led by CTO Luke Hoban.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

When Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched in 2016, aiming to compete against the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, it practically redefined the concept of minimally viable product, or MVP — with just one cloud region and a handful of cloud services.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Founder: Bolbi Liu was previously a product manager at Amazon Web Services. He previously spent five years at Google, most recently as a product manager. Founders: Chuka Okoye was a co-founder of Lyft’s Level 5 infrastructure team, which developed autonomous vehicle tech. “We work remote,” he said.

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2021

Boundless co-founder and CTO Serdar Sutay has left the Seattle immigration startup. Seattle digital remittance startup Remitly hired Robert Kaskel as EVP of people and appointed National Grid CFO Peggy Smyth to its board of directors. Kaskel was most recently the HR director for Amazon’s finance and global business services.

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