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Tech Moves: Google Cloud VP joins AWS; Unity CTO departs; PitchBook founder steps down

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(LinkedIn Photo) — Baskar Sridharan , a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team. Sridharan spent more than five years at Google, where he managed various Google Cloud engineering teams.

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Congrats, And Thanks, To Megan Smith U.S. CTO, Alexander Macgillivray Deputy U.S. CTO

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John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), posted an announcement on the White House blog today naming Megan Smith as U.S.

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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

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Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. Sinha, based in Seattle, most recently oversaw Google Cloud’s commerce capabilities. Ankur Sinha. Remitly Photo).

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Tech Moves: F5 adds CTO and HR chief; Adaptive names CFO; Techstars Seattle leaders depart

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F5 Chief People Officer Lyra Schramm (left) and Chief Technology Officer Kunal Anand. (F5 F5 Photos) — Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5 announced two new executive appointments this week: Lyra Schramm , the company’s new chief people officer, and Kunal Anand , chief technology officer.

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Expanso, a distributed data processing startup led by Google and Microsoft vets, raises $7.5M

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million seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Hetz Ventures to fuel growth of its software that provides data infrastructure capabilities at the “edge.” Expanso’s founding CTO Walid Baruni also worked at Amazon. Seattle startup Expanso raised a $7.5

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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. He is now a VP of engineering at Google.

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SwipeGuide’s CTO on data and the human element in Industry 4.0

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SwipeGuide Chief Technology Officer Sue Li has worked in the tech industry for over a decade, with a degree in educational technology and instructional design from Harvard University’s Technology, Innovation, and Education programme for her master’s degree. Harnessing the power of data for frontline workers.

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