Upwork Appoints Saty Bahadur as Chief Technology Officer
August 16 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Seasoned cloud, mobile and artificial
intelligence veteran joins Upwork to lead technology platform that
powers the world’s work marketplace
Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace that
connects businesses with independent talent, today announced that
Saty Bahadur has joined the company as its new chief technology
officer.
Bahadur joins Upwork from Amazon, where he spent the last four
years as a general manager, most recently leading the team
responsible for preventing worldwide fraud and abuse on Amazon.com.
Previously, he led the Alexa artificial intelligence group and
built the platform on which all of Alexa runs. Prior to Amazon,
Bahadur served in multiple engineering leadership positions over a
decade spent at Microsoft, most notably in the Windows and Windows
Phone business units, and held engineer and manager roles at
Intel.
Bahadur has spent the majority of his career on the cusp of
significant computing technology paradigm shifts. While at
Microsoft, he launched the Nokia Lumia 900, the first LTE phone in
the U.S., the Nokia Lumia 1020 and the Nokia Lumia 1520. 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.
“Clear technology strategy and flawless engineering execution
will continue to underpin Upwork’s ability to capitalize on the
phenomenal market opportunity in front of us,” said Upwork
President and CEO Hayden Brown. “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.”
“I’m beyond thrilled to join, lead and grow the already talented
engineering organization behind the world’s work marketplace,” said
Upwork CTO Saty Bahadur. “The success of our customers and,
ultimately, our success as a business will be built on a sound
technical foundation that allows us to rapidly scale, innovate and
empower independent talent and businesses alike in unlocking the
hybrid workforce.”
Bahadur holds an M.S. in computer science from Clemson
University, a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Birla
Institute of Technology & Science in Pilani, India, and
numerous patents in mobile and operating systems.
About Upwork
Upwork is the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses
with independent talent. We serve everyone from one-person startups
to 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform
that enables companies and freelancers to work together in new ways
that unlock their potential. Our talent community earned over $2.3
billion on Upwork in 2020 across more than 10,000 skills, including
website & app development, creative & design, customer
support, finance & accounting, consulting, and operations.
Learn more at www.upwork.com and join us on LinkedIn, Twitter,
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