Talent platform Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK) appointed Saty Bahadur as chief technology officer. Bahadur joined Upwork from Amazon where he spent the last four years as a general manager. Prior to that, he managed the Alexa artificial intelligence group. Before Amazon, he was at Microsoft, serving in multiple engineering leadership roles. Bahadur also held engineer and manager roles at Intel.
“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,” said Upwork President and CEO Hayden Brown.
While at Microsoft — where he led the Windows and Windows Phone business units — he launched the Nokia Lumia 900, the first LTE phone in the US, the Nokia Lumia 1020 and the Nokia Lumia 1520, according to Upwork. 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.
