— Fastly named Margaret Arakawa as chief marketing officer of the publicly traded San Francisco-based cloud network provider. Arakawa spent nearly 20 years at Microsoft before joining Seattle sales startup Outreach in… Read More
Luke Kanies loves tools. As a youngster, he learned why they matter while building homes with his father. He later became a system administrator and realized there weren’t tools available… Read More
— Longtime Seattle startup leader and investor Andy Sack joined the board of Payability, a New York City-based fintech startup. Sack previously led Techstars Seattle and co-founded Founders’ Co-op, where… Read More
Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics. Her announcement follows… Read More
— Microsoft added to its senior leadership team with the appointment of Christopher Young as executive vice president of business development. Young previously served as CEO of cybersecurity giant McAfee… Read More
Portland, Ore.-based cloud automation company Puppet today announced a $40 million funding round from BlackRock. Founded 15 years ago, Puppet helps customers develop cloud-based infrastructure that automates various parts of… Read More
— Microsoft named former GE executive Tom McGuinness corporate vice president of healthcare. At GE, McGuinness was president and CEO of GE Healthcare Imaging which offers imaging technologies, analytics and… Read More
— Smartsheet CFO Jenny Ceran will retire after transitioning to a successor. The collaboration work management company, which went public in 2018, will begin its search for a new CFO… Read More
— Keyana Corliss, Tableau’s director of corporate communications & global public relations, is departing to join female-founded unicorn Guild Education. The Denver-based company partners with employers to offer education benefits… Read More
Not only has Yvonne Wassenaar worked in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay area most of her career, it’s also where she grew up. But recently, she got a… Read More
At a time when lots of enterprise tech companies founded around open-source projects are reconsidering their approach, Puppet is doubling down on its open-core philosophy. That’s the approach that new… Read More
Puppet’s latest edition of its flagship infrastructure automation software includes additional support for Bolt, an open-source project that the company believes makes it easier for customers to move into the… Read More
— Richard Wang has returned to Coding Dojo as president following his departure as CEO in 2017. Michael Choi has moved from the role of CEO to chairman at the… Read More
After years of buying enterprise technology from software vendors, new Puppet CEO Yvonne Wassenaar will get a chance to run one. Puppet plans to announce Tuesday that Wassenaar will take… Read More
Building on the work done by its most recent acquisition, Puppet plans to announce a brand new product line Tuesday at its Puppetize Live conference that promises to help engineering… Read More
While software continues to eat the world, the philosophies and tactics used to build that software are constantly changing. Getting from idea to working software has never been easy, and… Read More
For all of Jeff Bezos’ accomplishments, one accolade he hadn’t attained was leading a company sitting atop the GeekWire 200, our ranking of privately held Pacific Northwest tech companies. Until now.… Read More
At one point three years ago, Portland’s Puppet thought it was headed toward an IPO. That did not happen, but CEO Sanjay Mirchandani says the DevOps toolmaker is back on… Read More
In one of two recent Microsoft-to-Amazon moves, Brian Schultz, who has worked on-and-off at Microsoft since 1999, is now working on Amazon Web Services. According to his LinkedIn profile, Schultz is… Read More
Two Portland tech companies are joining forces with Puppet’s acquisition of Reflect, a small startup focused on data visualization for engineering teams. Terms of the deal were not disclosed ahead… Read More
Nobody ever believes me when I say this, but the world of enterprise technology has actually been pretty exciting over the last few years. The rapid changes in the technology… Read More
DocuSign’s long reign atop the GeekWire 200 ranking of the top Pacific Northwest startups is over. The digital signature giant vacated its number one spot after graduating from our list… Read More
Puppet is shaking up its product strategy, announcing on Wednesday the first product that will become part of an expanded portfolio of DevOps-oriented products. Puppet Discovery allows companies to take… Read More
Portland-based DevOps startup Puppet has laid off three percent of its workforce, around 20 people, as it gears up for a new push amid an ever-changing market for software development… Read More
There’s no longer any point in ignoring the truth: during the age of open-source software, which was supposed to democratize software development and usher in a new era of community-driven… Read More
Last week we wrapped up a wild year for the Pacific Northwest’s top startups. Now it’s time to look ahead and see what’s on the horizon for the GeekWire 200, our… Read More
Puppet and Google announced a new partnership Tuesday designed to help Puppet customers running its DevOps software on-premises move their applications into Google Cloud. The two companies have worked to… Read More
Rahul Singh started with a single focus when he launched Distelli more than two years ago: give developers a way to ship better software faster. Now he’s doubling down on… Read More
It’s more than a trend at this point. Another cloud-focused company, this time Portland-based Puppet, is opening an engineering office in Seattle. Puppet plans to open an office in July… Read More
—Apple and Amazon are on a collision course in many industries, but the battle for tech talent looks to be heating up in the TV space. According to a report… Read More