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Tech Moves: Ex-Meta infrastructure VP joins Microsoft; DoorDash adds Amazon vet to board

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(LinkedIn Photo) Jason Taylor , the former vice president of infrastructure at Meta, joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and deputy CTO for the company’s AI supercomputing efforts. Previously he was CTO at ink2 and founded a gift certificate company called Lucidity in 1999. Benson splits his time between Bellevue, Wash.,

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

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Cummings joined Life Science Washington in 2015 and was previously director of policy and external affairs for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). “After 12 years at AWS taking databases and analytics from a tiny startup to the biggest player in the cloud database space, I left Amazon last month. based Absci.

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Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet joins insurance tech startup; Cyemptive Technologies adds exec

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Former Microsoft and Amazon Alexa engineering leader Sonny Patel was named CTO and CPO of insurance tech startup Socotra. Socotra Photo) — Sonny Patel was hired by San Francisco-based insurance tech startup Socotra as CTO and CPO. Founded in 2015, Socotra sells cloud-based tools for insurance tech companies.

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Cognitio’s Prime on DIA E-SITE Berico Technologies Exhibiting At DoDIIS Worldwide 23-26 Aug 2015

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E-SITE is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite -quantity (IDIQ) multiple-award contract awarded to 25 large and 25 small businesses to support IT requirements across the defense intelligence enterprise and greater intelligence community. significant expertise in legacy, hybrid, and cloud environments.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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AWS, Microsoft, Uber engineering vets raise $20M from top VCs for Seattle startup Temporal

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Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. He left in 2013 for Google, then joined Uber in 2015. Temporal Photo). Total funding to date is $25.5

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‘Convoy Mafia’: Alumni from trucking marketplace company lead new startups in Seattle

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GeekWire has profiled several Seattle companies started by Convoy alumni: Candidate, Cloud Paper, Common Room, Far Homes, Glue, GoodShip, heyLibby, Magicall, OutGo, Rollzi, Seattle NFT Museum, Solo, and Wolfscale. The company: Founded in 2019, Cloud Paper makes toilet paper, paper towels, dishcloths, and tissues from bamboo.

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