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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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Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. He joined UiPath in 2018 after a long stint at Microsoft, where he held various engineering leadership roles. Founded in 2011, Talkdesk sells software built for customer service contact centers. .”

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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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. By 2018, the Trainline platform was hosting more than 80 million customer visits a month, with more than 80% coming through mobile devices. “The

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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. Since retiring from Seattle-based Tableau in 2018, Fink has joined the board of directors at several startups including Qumulo and Pantheon. Hillsboro, Ore.-based

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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

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Emily Freeman , head of community for Amazon Web Services , is departing. “I’m excited to take some time to rest (and write!) LinkedIn Photo) — William Johnson stepped down from Vancouver Tech Journal , which he founded in 2018. Glick was previously an engineer at New Relic and Amazon Web Services.

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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. Founded in Seattle in 2012, Actively Learn was acquired in 2018 by New Jersey educational technology company Achieve3000. He will start in September. Procurify Photos).

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

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Widner, based in Sydney, Australia, joined the Lighter board in 2018. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Amazon Web Services sales leader Ernesto Chavarin joined Bellevue, Wash.-based The Redmond, Wash.,