Tech Moves: Former Chef CEO joins Buildkite board; Salesforce hires Code.org exec — Barry Crist is now board chair of Perth, Australia-based software company Buildkite. Crist is the former CEO and board… Read More
Notable tech leaders back Magnify as software startup emerges with $6M in funding New funding: Magnify, an enterprise software startup which will have operations in Seattle and Bend, Ore., has come out of… Read More
Chef to be acquired for $220M by Progress in ‘next chapter’ for Seattle automation tech company Updated below with details from interview with Chef CEO Barry Crist. Business application platform Progress will acquire Seattle-based automation technology… Read More
Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart Manny Vellon was a software engineer and Seattle startup founder legendary among colleagues and customers for his ability to find… Read More
Chef hits key financial milestone as digital boom fuels demand for software automation Chef CEO Barry Crist delivered the opening ChefConf keynote address on video from his Seattle home on Tuesday morning, with… Read More
Chef names new CTO to succeed its co-founder, eyes broader market for enterprise automation It’s a new era at Chef, and not just because the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has suddenly created… Read More
Chef unveils new commercial product strategy, will now sell distributions of its open-source projects Chef hopes to bring a little clarity to the future of its open-source and commercial software work Tuesday by taking… Read More
Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors After 10 years at the Seattle company he co-founded and helped steer through a rapidly changing market for enterprise technology,… Read More
Chef cutting 10 jobs amid ongoing shift to new application-focused product strategy Seattle’s Chef is eliminating ten jobs as it reorganizes the company around the ongoing shift to cloud computing, GeekWire has… Read More
Capping a year of change, Chef taps former Impinj CFO Evan Fein as its new CFO With the appointment of three new executives, Chef believes it is most of the way through a year-long strategy shift… Read More
Citing need for “engineering execution,” Chef gives control of engineering to its co-founder and CTO while the sales department reorganizes Seattle DevOps startup Chef made several organizational changes this week, installing co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob as head of engineering… Read More
