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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: Google Cloud VP joins AWS; Unity CTO departs; PitchBook founder steps down

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LinkedIn Photo) — Baskar Sridharan , a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team. He will remain on the board of the digital remittance company he helped start in 2011.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 31, 2024

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… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

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Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense (2011-2013), Director, CIA (2009-2011) & Co-founder, Panetta Institute for Public Policy. Wolf Tombe , CTO, U.S. Travis Howerton , CTO, NNSA. David Shive , Director, Office of Enterprise Infrastructure, GSA IT. Chuck McGann , Corporate Information Security Officer, USPS.

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Seattle startup that helps companies protect their AI and machine learning code raises $35M

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From left: Protect AI CEO Ian Swanson, CTO Badar Ahmed, and president Daryan Dehghanpisheh. Protect AI’s tools work in Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. It was acquired by American Express in 2011. In the AI cybersecurity space, there are several well-funded startups.

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Tech Moves: Tanium hires CFO; Utrip founder launches VC firm; AWS IoT exec joins Siemens

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Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Berenstein told GeekWire that Brook Bay Capital will focus on AI/ML, marketplaces and technology for the financial, real estate, retail and travel industries.

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Madrona leads $27M round in Twitter vets’ Fauna database startup; Bob Muglia named chairman

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Eric Berg, a former Okta and Apptio executive, is taking the helm of Fauna as CEO, succeeding co-founder Evan Weaver, who is becoming CTO. Evan Weaver, Fauna co-founder and CTO. Fauna describes itself as multi-cloud, currently running on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.