His new role “sits right at the nexus of critical infrastructure, security, and privacy, so it‘s a subject that speaks very closely to my heart,” Yonatan Zunger said on LinkedIn.
Microsoft has hired Yonatan Zunger, once the “seniormost engineer” at Twitter and a 14-year-plus Google employee, whose tenure at the cloud computing vendor included work on Google Assistant and now-shttered social media network Google+.
Zunger updated his LinkedIn social media account to show that Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft recruited him last month, giving him the title of corporate vice president and chief technology officer of identity and network access. Microsoft owns LinkedIn.
In a post on LinkedIn, Zunger said that his new role “sits right at the nexus of critical infrastructure, security, and privacy, so it‘s a subject that speaks very closely to my heart.”
CRN has reached out to Zunger, Microsoft and Twitter for comment.
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