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Tech Moves: Karat, Common Room, Aduro hire execs; longtime Microsoft cloud leader departs

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Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. Common Room, a Seattle startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers, hired Matt Duchesne as vice president of sales. He also worked at VMware and Avi Networks. .

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Director of Product Management, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Daniel Duffy. Eddie Garcia.

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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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‘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. Vice president of operations Victoria Kiss was a demand program manager at Convoy.

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Fed Tech News Roundup

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Don’t Hire A Chief Data Officer Unless You’re Serious About Becoming A Data-Driven Company TechCrunch (Today) - There’s a lot of discussion in the business world right now about chief data officers (CDOs). It’s centered primarily around two questions: When should a business hire a CDO? Why Most Public Cloud Solutions Are Unsafe?

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Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily

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He is the former CTO of Canadian startups Checkfront and Foodee. He is also a Hootsuite alum and was director of software development for the social media management tool after it acquired Brightkit, which McGuire co-founded. He was previously a senior director of product management at Dell EMC and program manager at Microsoft.

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Have You Ever Had A Complaint/Suggestion About How The Federal Government Buys Technology

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Contractors can blame government program managers, and government program managers can blame contractors. And both, from time to time, blame IT vendors! Every agency has a different mission and therefore different requirements on their IT. We could go on and on. We are anxious to hear from you.