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OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. The Series C round is a vote of confidence in Pulumi, which helps developers build underlying cloud computing infrastructure using general purpose languages such as JavaScript and Python.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering. based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. She previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. . He was previously a group engineering manager at Microsoft.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

. — Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. A year later D’Ambrosio-Correll became CTO of Mirror, which was rebranded to Lululemon Studio. D’Ambrosio-Correll was also named a co-founder of the company as part of her hire.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. Despite the fact that we are opening new and expanding existing cloud data centers very, very rapidly.”

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JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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MARCH 16, 2023

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. Why limit yourself to just saying, ‘We need a network upgrade to move to the cloud,’ when you can also make other suggestions?

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Gulabani previously worked at Microsoft and Google. “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. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. based Absci.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

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. Abbas worked at Microsoft for 11 years before joining Amazon in 2010. Temporal Photo). million.

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2023

According to Amazon’s latest safety report , the company said it improved its recordable incident rate by 11% from 2021 to 2022, and reduced its lost time incident rate by 14%. Other key personnel changes in the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Cloud security giant Zscaler hired longtime Seattle tech vet Syam Nair as its new CTO.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

. — Kim Swift has been named the senior director of cloud gaming for Xbox Game Studios Publishing. In her new role at Xbox, Swift will work on innovation and collaborating with independent studios to build games for the cloud, according to an announcement Monday. Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

T-Systems is the latest European communications service provider (CSPs) to announce national data services for organizations, as telcos’ legal teams grapple with tough questions around managing customer data within the cloud. T-Systems has said it is partnering with Google Cloud to build and deliver. sovereign cloud services.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. Oracle photo).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“Ada was at a transitional point given the dramatic contraction in the tech talent market, and I am a builder/growth stage leader,” Sato told GeekWire. Cynthia Randall was promoted to deputy general counsel and head of litigation at Microsoft. He was most recently VP of finance at cloud automation startup SkyKick.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Shortly after leaving the company that Altman himself founded a couple of years ago, one of OpenAI’s biggest investors Microsoft welcomed the mastermind behind prominent AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E to lead a new advanced AI research team alongside Greg Brockman, the former president of OpenAI.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Founded in 2019 by veterans of Microsoft, Apple, and Auth0, the startup offers flexible APIs to software-as-a-service vendors that make it easier to add integrations as part of their apps. “We It also has private cloud hosting options. Janczuk spent 12 years at Microsoft and was most recently a VP at Auth0.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems. The 25-year veteran of Microsoft left in August to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Freeman is the author of “DevOps for Dummies” and “97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know.” He previously worked at Microsoft, XOR Data Exchange, and Clarity Services. Dr. Timothy Dellit. (UW

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AUGUST 25, 2023

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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APRIL 7, 2014

in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. contract with the U.S.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Longtime Microsoft executive Brad Anderson is moving back to his hometown in Utah as part of his new role at Qualtrics. Brad Anderson, a longtime Microsoft corporate vice president, has joined Qualtrics as president of products and services. He joined Microsoft in 2003 as a general manager after 12 years at Novell.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2024

… 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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Its software runs on-premise, in the cloud, and on IoT devices. The company is led by CEO Alexander Gounares , a former CTO at AOL, CEO of Concurix, and Microsoft executive. It recently hired Dr. Ralph Pascualy, the former CEO of Swedish Medical Group, to accelerate its healthcare offering.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The company both competes and partners with cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft. Last year, OutSystems hired three new executives in the Seattle region — all Microsoft veterans — as part of its U.S. Microsoft Photo). Cloud-based IT management startup Apptio announced Kevin Meeks as chief customer officer.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Prior to AWS, she spent nine years at Microsoft leading sales to federal government agencies. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. “I’m

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Pulumi Photo) As more companies move to the cloud and adopt AI tools, Seattle startup Pulumi is looking to capitalize. Startup wins contract to inspect space debris: NASA awarded Tukwila, Wash.-based

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JULY 28, 2023

JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators. At the heart of JLL’s transformation into a technology provider is the cloud infrastructure JLL built using AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure, as well as Snowflake for data storage and Azure AI and Databricks for AI models.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI will continue to be a growth area for the company, driving “the next major wave of computing.” ” But Microsoft, which last week announced the layoff of 10,000 employees , isn’t saying exactly how much it’s investing, or how much of OpenAI it will own as a result.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm, announced a formal advisory board drawing from industry experts and past mentors. The inaugural advisory board members, all from within the Microsoft organization, include: • Distinguished Scientist Matthias Troyer. • GitHub CTO Jason Warner. GitHub CTO Jason Warner.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Former Microsoft Corporate Vice President Marc Brown joined EQT as a partner and global head of EQT Growth, a new strategic initiative focused on technology. At Microsoft, Brown oversaw corporate development, M&A and strategic investments including the company’s acquisitions of LinkedIn and GitHub. tech giant. Eugene, Ore.-based

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Augmented writing startup Textio hired Jackye Clayton as vice president of talent acquisition and DEI. Tech leader and Microsoft Deputy CTO Lila Tretikov to lead Cervest Board of Directors. Katrine Fritz has been promoted to chief merchant.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Microsoft Photo). Microsoft added to its senior leadership team with the appointment of Christopher Young as executive vice president of business development. based cloud automation company Puppet named two new board appointments as it preps for an IPO next year. Christopher Young. He helped spin out McAfee from Intel in 2017.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year.

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