True Knowledge is delighted to announce that, starting today, Simon Weaver is joining the team as Vice President of Engineering. Simon comes to us by way of Bing in the US where he spent the last three years working on large scale distributed computing problems and most recently was responsible for the design and selection of the infrastructure stack for the Yahoo! traffic acquisition.
Prior to joining Bing, Simon spent three years in Silicon Valley, where he was a member of the launch team for Microsoft’s first foray into cloud storage later becoming part of Windows Azure. He was also a member of the team responsible for Hotmail’s response to Gmail. Earlier in his career he worked for MSN and was also part of the totaljobs.com launch team (which is now the largest recruitment website in the UK).
Simon will take overall ownership of our engineering effort and will be responsible for managing and growing our engineering capability. Simon himself will report directly to William Tunstall-Pedoe and will work with him and the rest of the management team to deliver on the ambitious plans we have for our platform and products.
Simon brings considerable engineering and management experience to True Knowledge and, in his own words, “can’t wait to get started on scaling the system to a trillion facts.”
Outside work, his main attention is his eight month old daughter. When time permits, he enjoys dining out, snowboarding and watching Rugby.
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