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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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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 28, 2024

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. … Read More Tech Moves: Docker and Qualtrics leaders join Seattle startup Mason; Beyond adds Zulily director Mason, a Seattle startup that offers a hardware-software platform for companies managing device fleets, hired Webb Stevens as its new CEO and John Thimsen as its new CTO. … Read More

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. . Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce.

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Silicon Valley mainstay NEA leads $37.5M investment in Seattle cloud startup Pulumi

GeekWire

Jay Wampold , a veteran marketing executive with experience at companies including Chef, Amazon Web Services, Qumulo, and Cloudability, recently joined Pulumi as chief marketing officer. The company says it also hired Lindsay Marolich as senior director of demand generation and Kevin Kotecki as VP of sales.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

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These were built as managed web services that eliminated the operational complexity of managing systems while still providing extremely high durability. Amazon engineers preferred to use these services instead of managing their own databases like Dynamo, even though Dynamos functionality was better aligned with their applicationsâ??