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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Information Technology

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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

GeekWire

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 was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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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. By 2018, the Trainline platform was hosting more than 80 million customer visits a month, with more than 80% coming through mobile devices.

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Join 11 Dec 2014 Webinar For Latest In Big Data Design Patterns From Intel and Cloudera

CTOvision

On Thursday 11 December 2014, join noted enterprise CTO and publisher of CTOvision Bob Gourley and Cloudera’s Sr. About the presenters: Bob Gourley is the publisher of CTOvision.com, a site providing mission-focused insights into enterprise technologies. Webster Mudge is Sr.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile tech leader to retire; Curi Bio and CrowdCow appoint CEOs; and more

GeekWire

Geisse has served the company for more than five years as chief science officer and previously held scientific, commercial, product development and management roles for Asylum Research, which was acquired by Oxford Instruments. Cho will continue with the biotech company in a corporate and legal strategy capacity.

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

GeekWire

T-Mobile Photo). — T-Mobile appointed former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Letitia Long to its board. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Letitia Long. (T-Mobile Read the story. Gopuff Photos).

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Katie Buss and Ben Howard take command at KinectAir travel service as co-CEOs

GeekWire

Buss previously served as KinectAir’s chief operating officer. Howard, who co-founded the privately held company in 2019, was chief technology officer before his promotion. -based KinectAir , which provides a digital platform for booking on-demand private air travel.

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