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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. Jarnot joined WTIA in 2021 and previously worked for the U.S. Baskar Sridharan.

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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. I had been at Google for so long that I stopped counting,” she says. Everything fell in place; every box was ticked,” she says. “I

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

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Amazon Web Services vice president Raju Gulabani departed last month, as reported by The Information. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. Madrona Venture Group hired Amazon Web Services veteran Jon Turow as an investing partner.

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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. ” Freeman joined AWS as head of DevOps Product Marketing in 2021. Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. The company raised $95 million in 2021. Mika Yamamoto.

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Crypto exchange Gemini expanding in Seattle area amid industry turmoil

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The company was valued at more than $7 billion after raising $400 million in November 2021. office currently employs 28 workers. The twins launched Gemini in 2015, offering a way for consumers to buy, sell, and store crypto. In June, the company announced that it was cutting 10% of its staff.

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Biotech giant Moderna will open tech office in Seattle, plans to hire up to 220 workers

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The 13-year-old company also sees an opportunity to deepen its relationship with Amazon Web Services, its cloud provider that supports its DNA sequencing and other work, said Miller. It increased its employee headcount to 3,900 at the end of 2022 from 2,700 at the end of 2021. billion in 2021. The company invested $1.2