Google search veteran now hails from Uber
Google search veteran now hails from Uber:- Former Google executive Amit Singhal is joining Uber as senior vice president of engineering, a major score for the ride-hailing company.
“Catching the next ride of my professional journey,” Singhal tweeted on Friday.
Employee no. 176, Singhal worked for 15 years at Google where he was the Internet giant’s head search honcho. He left Google last year and now will lead the maps and marketplace departments at Uber as well as advise Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and vice president of engineering and Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski on self-driving technology, according to a report in technology news outlet TechCrunch.
The engineering hurdles and the potential effect of Uber on society convinced Singhal to make the move, he told TechCrunch. At $68 billion, Uber is the world’s most richly valued private technology company.
“This company is not only doing things that are amazing, this company also has some of the toughest computer science challenges that I have seen in my career of 25 years,” he said.
Source:-Â http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/01/20/former-google-search-executive-amit-singhal-joins-uber/96839988/
