The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Senior researcher Alex Hanna, and software engineer Dylan Baker, will join Timnit Gebru’s nonprofit research institute, Distributed AI Research (DAIR). Two members of Google’s Ethical AI group have announced their departures from the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. Today's my last day at Google.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Loti is among a crop of up-and-coming tech companies and nonprofits developing software to help identify deepfakes and protect their likeness. The non-partisan, nonprofit organization launched in January and is led by Oren Etzioni , a University of Washington professor and longtime AI specialist.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

The FTC says TurboTax ads claiming its tax prep software is free are misleading | Getty Images. The IRS has a program that allows many Americans to file their taxes for free, as part of a partnership with the nonprofit coalition Free File Alliance. Intuit said last July it was leaving that program , however, citing its “limitations.”.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

In a post last week on the Seattle Transit Blog, OBA co-creator Kari Watkins wrote that the non-profit Open Software Transit Foundation, created to maintain the project, needs “an influx of cash.” Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, as their longtime mentor.

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MAY 14, 2024

Dwight’s flight is sponsored by two nonprofit organizations: Space for Humanity and the Seattle-based Jaison and Jamie Robinson Foundation. The crew capsule’s leaf design symbolizes the Family Tree Maker software that Kenneth L. Hess developed.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2024

His Blue Origin trip was sponsored by a nonprofit group called Space for Humanity , with an assist from the Seattle-based Jaison and Jamie Robinson Foundation. Dwight’s crewmates on today’s flight were venture capitalist Mason Angel, French brewery founder Sylvain Chiron, software engineer Kenneth L.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Seattle-area satellite startup LeoStella named Paula Tomlinson as director of software engineering. Tomlinson was previously a senior manager of software avionics at Blue Origin and also spent time at Impinj and Microsoft. Lennington joined Athira in 2021 and Willing joined last year.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2023

The nonprofit has multiple programs including: Designated “anchor communities” in which they form coalitions of organizations that interact with homeless youth to coordinate their outreach efforts. . of all software engineers in the U.S. are Black, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. He previously worked as VP of platform engineering at Paris-based carpooling platform BlaBlaCar and was an engineer at Chef Software. Customer-relationship management company Brevo, which has its U.S.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2021

Intuit, the parent company of tax filing software TurboTax, is exiting an IRS program that allows many Americans to file their taxes for free. The IRS partners with the Free File Alliance , a nonprofit coalition of tax software companies that offer no-cost tax filing services for the Free File program. Getty Images.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Black Code Collective The Black Code Collective (BCC) was started in 2016 to create a safe space and community for Black software engineers. For many Black technologists, they often find themselves as one of the only Black employees on their team or in the room.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Eidelson, an engineer whose first startup was acquired by Google and his second by payment processor Stripe, was struggling with the existential threat posed by global warming. Along with his brother, he published a step-by-step guide encouraging other software engineers to seek out climate endeavors that needed their skills.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Sheldon’s other roles at the tech giant included principal lead program manager for Bing and principal engineering manager for Dynamics Applied Research, where he led a team of data scientists and engineers to build predictive systems for business applications.

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MARCH 24, 2024

… Read More Former Convoy engineers take another swing at trucking tech with new Seattle startup Andrew Huff and Oliver Jones aren’t done trying to build software for the trucking industry. … Read More Jama Software to be acquired for $1.2B … Read More Jama Software to be acquired for $1.2B

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2023

She also worked at iLink Digital for nearly two years and helped run a software development services company. SeaCiti, a nonprofit of the Washington Technology Industry Association that aims to help tech workers create local impact, hired Terrence Stevenson as director. Joseph L u, founder of Portland, Ore.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2024

Salpeter lives in western New York where he runs Sweet Farm , an nonprofit organization that combines sustainable agriculture and animal rescue with a technology startup accelerator. in mechanical engineering and previously worked at Bill Gates’ TerraPower nuclear company, among other jobs. He holds a Ph.D. ” Kurani said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Women also typically make less than their male counterparts in science, engineering, mathematics, and computer science occupations — with an average median salary of $66,000 per year, versus $90,000 for men. Girl Develop It offers web and software development courses at affordable rates in a “judgement-free zone.” Ada’s List.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

Hess , a software engineer and entrepreneur who developed the Family Tree Maker product line in the 1990s. In 2001, Hess founded Science Buddies , a K-12 nonprofit that’s based in California and focuses on STEM literacy. Sylvain Chiron , the founder of Brasserie du Mont Blanc , one of the largest craft breweries in France.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The former CEO of BoldIQ, Yarkoni was most recently an executive at Check Point Software and previously EVP of customer operations and strategy at Apptio. Thill was previously an HR leader at Medallia, a San Francisco software company. He was most recently VP of engineering at Smartsheet where he worked for more than eight years.

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APRIL 17, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) More than 100 companies, tribal groups, union organizations, environmental nonprofits and political groups are backing a campaign to defeat a November ballot initiative that would scuttle Washington state’s most impactful climate policy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. Lain McGrath, benefits engineer, Gusto. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Streetman most recently served as CEO of Allvue Systems, an investment management software development company. He was previously CEO of Tibco Software, a business unit of Cloud Software Group and was an executive at BMC Software, Salesforce, C3.ai ai and Allworth Financial. He also served in Iraq as a U.S.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

He was also founder and CEO of i3D, which enhanced the interconnectivity of web platforms with the virtual 3D world of the product Second Life, and was an engineer at Redmond, Wash.-based Bodnar was previously chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he founded its Center for Climate-Aligned Finance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 11, 2024

At the CIO level, we’re in charge of the vision and how that vision is met,” says Gary Flowers, CIO of transformation and technology services at nonprofit workforce development organization Year Up. For many IT leaders, being central to organization-wide training initiatives may be new territory. “At And many CIOs are stepping up.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlas Health’s software is built on a proprietary database of more than 20,000 medical financial aid programs. Atlas links customers with organizations that can alleviate some of these expenses, such as nonprofits that help cancer patients afford costly drugs. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

— Barry Christ joined the board of Perth, Australia-based software company Buildkite. Buildkite’s products support the building, testing and deployment of software, and enable customers to run pipelines on their own infrastructure. Barry Crist. It has more than 1,000 customers, including Chef and other Seattle startups.

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2021

Ramesh, who works for Amazon as a software engineering manager, was so excited to welcome his little boy. In this podcast we go deeper into Ramesh’s experience as both a father and a talented tech engineer working to help both his son and others struggling to save loved ones battling rare diseases.

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JULY 12, 2021

He joined Microsoft after the Groove deal, ultimately succeeding Gates as the company’s chief software architect, and helping to lead the launch of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. It is also working with partners to help with hardware engineering and integrating IoT data into apps.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

Statsig , a feature management and experimentation platform founded in 2021 by Vijaye Raji, who previously led Facebook’s Seattle engineering office. Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good. billion.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

Dyce, a software engineer at Jargon , was looking for a cause she believed in and where her particular skill set would be useful. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. Dyce discovered Off Their Plate, a nonprofit that uses donations to pay restaurants to prepare meals, while browsing Instagram. ”

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APRIL 16, 2024

Megan Hulsey of Craft3, a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution. At the same time, connecting with people working remotely in Spokane can be hit and miss, said Megan Hulsey , a Spokane-based vice president and business lender with Craft3 , a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and vice chair, cited the growing threat of ransomware and other cybersecurity attacks in a virtual news conference announcing the initiative alongside educational and nonprofit leaders Thursday morning. “So there’s been an ongoing conversation in the cybersecurity community.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BAs engage with business leaders and users to understand how data-driven changes to process, products, services, software, and hardware can improve efficiencies and add value. Depending on the role, a business analyst might work with data sets to improve products, hardware, tools, software, services, or process.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Photo) — Vahé Torossian , a longtime former corporate vice president at Microsoft , joined software development startup Builder.ai Vahé Torossian. as president and chief partner officer. London-based Builder.ai uses AI and other tech to help companies build and maintain apps across various verticals. “Today I join Builder.ai

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Komal Kashiramka as director of engineering for Gopuff Kitchen. She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. million earlier this year. Lauren Woodman.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

(Bumble Photo) — Antoine Leblond , a former longtime Microsoft exec who was most recently senior vice president of software at Sonos, joined dating app company Bumble as chief technology officer. Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products.

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