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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

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(Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur also worked at Microsoft for a decade years and helped develop the Windows mobile operating system.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

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. They’re all these brilliant individuals who have a lot to add beyond coding their part of the technical system.

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Tech Moves: Zulily hires Nike exec as new CTO; Google vet Phil Bogle joins Kalshi; Auth0 adds CISO

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. — After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. Kissler was most recently VP of Nike Global Technology and helped lead the athletic giant’s inventory and fulfillment systems. Nish Lathia. Valo Health Photo).

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Tech Moves: Ex-Meta infrastructure VP joins Microsoft; DoorDash adds Amazon vet to board

GeekWire

(LinkedIn Photo) Jason Taylor , the former vice president of infrastructure at Meta, joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and deputy CTO for the company’s AI supercomputing efforts. Previously he was CTO at ink2 and founded a gift certificate company called Lucidity in 1999. Benson splits his time between Bellevue, Wash.,

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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

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Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. Binde previously held senior engineering roles at Google, Nordstrom and Persistent Systems. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. (OfferUp Photo). based startup in June.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Information Technology

” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. What’s the state of those systems?

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Mobility in DoD – Let’s get this SHOW ON THE ROAD!

CTOvision

Ever since I discovered that I could be productive AWAY from my desk, I have been addicted to mobility! It’s easy to forget how far behind DoD is in providing their workforce with a mobile capability. Every IT provider now has a “mobility” solution in the pipeline, and some of them are pretty cool. I guess you probably are too.

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