Twitter promoted company insider and technology head Parag Agrawal to replace Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey.
Facts about Parag Agrawal :
Decade with Twitter
Parag Agrawal join Twitter as a software engineer and has been with the company for over a decade.
Parag Agrawal was appointed chief technology officer in October 2017.
He oversaw Twitter’s technical strategy and was responsible for improving the pace of software development, while advancing the use of machine learning.
Project Bluesky
Parag Agrawal has also been working on Project Bluesky, an independent team of open source architects, engineers and designers to combat abusive and misleading information on Twitter since December 2019.
Bluesky is seeking to introduce a new decentralised technology, the idea being that Twitter and others will become clients of Bluesky and rebuild their platforms on top of the standard.
Ex-Microsoft and Yahoo employee
Parag Agrawal work at Microsoft, Yahoo, and AT&T Labs in their research units, as per Parag Agrawal’s LinkedIn profile.
Stanford Graduate
Parag Agrawal has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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