Upwork Appoints Saty Bahadur as Chief Technology Officer
Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK) has appointed Saty Bahadur as its new Chief Technology Officer. Bahadur, who previously worked at Amazon, brings extensive experience in technology leadership, having managed fraud prevention and the Alexa AI group. His past roles include significant positions at Microsoft and Intel. Upwork's President and CEO, Hayden Brown, emphasized Bahadur's technical expertise will enhance the company's ability to seize market opportunities. Bahadur expressed enthusiasm about leading Upwork’s engineering team and focusing on scalable solutions to empower businesses and independent talent.
- Saty Bahadur has joined as CTO, bringing experience from Amazon and Microsoft that may enhance technical leadership.
- His track record in engineering positions is expected to accelerate Upwork's technology delivery.
- Concerns may arise regarding the continuity and experience gaps in the leadership transition.
Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent, today announced that Saty Bahadur has joined the company as its new chief technology officer.
Bahadur joins Upwork from Amazon, where he spent the last four years as a general manager, most recently leading the team responsible for preventing worldwide fraud and abuse on Amazon.com. Previously, he led the Alexa artificial intelligence group and built the platform on which all of Alexa runs. Prior to Amazon, Bahadur served in multiple engineering leadership positions over a decade spent at Microsoft, most notably in the Windows and Windows Phone business units, and held engineer and manager roles at Intel.
Bahadur has spent the majority of his career on the cusp of significant computing technology paradigm shifts. While at Microsoft, he launched the Nokia Lumia 900, the first LTE phone in the U.S., the Nokia Lumia 1020 and the Nokia Lumia 1520. At Intel, Bahadur helped architect the Pentium 4 processor, built and drove standardization of the InfiniBand networking communications standard, and shipped the industry’s first-ever OS virtualization solution.
“Clear technology strategy and flawless engineering execution will continue to underpin Upwork’s ability to capitalize on the phenomenal market opportunity in front of us,” said Upwork President and CEO Hayden Brown. “Saty’s technical prowess, experience across platforms and established track record of building industry-leading engineering teams will accelerate Upwork’s delivery of technology and experiences for customers that change the way work gets done.”
“I’m beyond thrilled to join, lead and grow the already talented engineering organization behind the world’s work marketplace,” said Upwork CTO Saty Bahadur. “The success of our customers and, ultimately, our success as a business will be built on a sound technical foundation that allows us to rapidly scale, innovate and empower independent talent and businesses alike in unlocking the hybrid workforce.”
Bahadur holds an M.S. in computer science from Clemson University, a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science in Pilani, India, and numerous patents in mobile and operating systems.
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