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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

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. The only sustainable way for us to prove this is break the barriers for underrepresented groups as they enter the tech world,” she says.

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Tech Moves: Life Science Washington names new CEO; AWS exec departs; Vizio CTO retires

GeekWire

Life Science Washington also announced four new board members: University of Washington Bothell School of STEM Dean Leslie Cornick Wedbush Managing Director Kelly Lisbakken Seagen SVP of Global Value Access Cindy McDonald-Everett Madrona Venture Group Partner Chris Picardo. Madrona Venture Group Photo).

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

GeekWire

.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Read the story. Tim Collins (left) and Sharad Sundaresan. Gopuff Photos).

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Amazon and Microsoft vets raise $10M for computer vision startup used in warehouses

GeekWire

Dirac worked as a senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services for more than six years, where he led the AutoML program. Geiger is a longtime product design and engineering consultant. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. ”

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Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers

GeekWire

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. Oracle photo).

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

GeekWire

Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. He led teams working on various cloud-related services and platforms, including Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and the Azure AI Platform. . chief research officer Leslie Wood.