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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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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.

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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. ” — 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. based Vettd.ai’s board of advisors.

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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. Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. LinkedIn Photo) — William Johnson stepped down from Vancouver Tech Journal , which he founded in 2018. Emily Freeman. William Johnson.

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

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. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines.

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Former Tableau execs launch new Seattle startup that helps companies manage cloud costs

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Fletcher spent more than seven years at Tableau in various financial leadership roles, eventually becoming the data visualization giant’s CFO in 2018. Fletcher recruited former Tableau colleague Michael Arvold to be the company’s co-founder and CTO. Millworks helps finance leaders pinpoint areas to cut costs.

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Tech Moves: Former Lyft, Remitly exec named PCC CEO; Leafly adds engineering leader; and more

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He has served as CFO of the Seattle-based grocery co-op since 2018. He was most recently CTO at Seattle startup Pipeline CRM and previously and engineering leader at Navigating Cancer and Getty Images. Microsoft and Amazon alum Jason Ing is now chief marketing officer at Mural , a visual collaboration tool.