Meet Twitter’s New Indian-Origin CEO Parag Agrawal

Twitter on Monday promoted firm insider and know-how head Parag Agrawal to interchange Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey. The social media networking platform joins tech giants Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet in tapping an organization insider for the highest job.

Here are some information about Agrawal:

Decade with Twitter

Agrawal joined Twitter as a software program engineer and has been with the corporate for over a decade. He was appointed chief know-how officer in October 2017.

He oversaw Twitter’s technical technique and was chargeable for enhancing the tempo of software program improvement, whereas advancing using machine studying throughout the corporate.

Project Bluesky

Since December 2019, Agrawal has additionally been engaged on Project Bluesky, an unbiased group of open supply architects, engineers and designers to fight abusive and deceptive data on Twitter.

Bluesky is looking for to introduce a brand new decentralised know-how, the concept being that Twitter and others will turn out to be purchasers of Bluesky and rebuild their platforms on prime of the usual, Dorsey has stated beforehand.

Ex-Microsoft, Yahoo worker

Before becoming a member of Twitter, Agrawal labored at Microsoft, Yahoo, and AT&T Labs of their analysis items, in response to his LinkedIn profile.

Stanford graduate

Agrawal has a Ph.D. in laptop science from Stanford University and a bachelor’s diploma in laptop science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

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