Prior to joining Twitter, Mr. Agarwal worked at Microsoft Corp, Yahoo and AT&T Labs Inc. in their research units.
Twitter Inc promoted to replace Parag Agarwal, company insider and head of technology, Monday, November 29, 2021 Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey.
The social media networking platform has joined hands with tech giants Apple, Amazon and Alphabet in tapping a company insider to hire.
Some facts about Mr. Agarwal are as follows:
decade with twitter
Mr. Agarwal joined Twitter as a software engineer and has been with the company for over a decade. He was appointed Chief Technology Officer in October 2017.
He oversaw Twitter’s technology strategy and was responsible for improving the pace of software development while advancing the use of machine learning across the company.
Project Bluesky
Since December 2019, Mr. Agarwal is also working on Project Bluesky, an independent team of open source architects, engineers and designers, to combat abusive and misleading information on Twitter.
Bluesky is seeking to introduce a new decentralized technology, the idea being that Twitter and others will become Bluesky’s customers and rebuild their platform on top of the standard, Mr. Dorsey has previously said.
Ex-Microsoft, Yahoo Employee
According to a LinkedIn profile, before joining Twitter, Mr. Agarwal worked in its research units at Microsoft Corp., Yahoo and AT&T Labs Inc.
Stanford graduate
Agarwal holds Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University https://bit.ly/3liOKiT and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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