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

GeekWire

— 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. He is now a VP of engineering at Google.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 31, 2024

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… 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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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. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. Amazon veteran Stephen Curial joined Jungle Scout as CTO.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more

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The cloud arm of Google, which competes with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, boosted its operating profits to $395 million, a improvement of close to $1 billion from its loss of $590 million in the same quarter a year ago. He replaces co-founder Fadi George , who will transition to CTO and remain as president of the board.

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Amazon and Microsoft vets raise $10M for computer vision startup used in warehouses

GeekWire

Dirac worked as a senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services for more than six years, where he led the AutoML program. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The duo teamed up to figure out how to reduce the time and money required to create machine learning applications.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says.

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