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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 is now a VP of engineering at Google.

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

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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. He was an executive at PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle in 2005.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

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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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Tech Moves: Payscale CEO steps down; a16z adds Seattle-based partner; Madrona hires investor

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Gwertzman founded gaming infrastructure startup PlayFab, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and sold Sprout Games to PopCap Games in 2005. Sarah Bettencourt as chief people officer. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor.

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

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A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce. Read the story. Gopuff Photos).

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

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Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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Airship AI, a Seattle-area edge computing company that never raised investment, set to go public

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Airship AI and BYTE execs believe taking the company public is essential for the nature of its business, particularly to cater to government clients and open up opportunity for larger contracts. Army Special Forces, and CTO Yanda Ma , who joined Airship in 2005. The company will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker AISP.

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