Google Cloud Partner CloudWerx Hires Former Google Manager As New CIO
Summary
One of Google Cloud’s fastest-rising partners, CloudWerx, continues to hire top-notch talent from companies including Google and Microsoft as the Silicon Valley-based startup Friday unveiled the hiring of Munish Gupta as its new CIO. “The way forward is to now build a world-class engineering team that has the passion and technical depth, and we will always strive to revolve around the fundamental principles of any solution—simplicity, reliability, security and ability to automatically scale up and down.” As CloudWerx’s new CIO, Gupta is responsible for developing the company’s strategy with a focus on vendor, talent and data management, as well as cybersecurity and business continuity. CloudWerx said it is “confident” Gupta will play a pivotal role in the Google Cloud partner’s continued business growth. “We are thrilled to announce a remarkable addition to our engineering team, extending a warm welcome to Munish Gupta.” CloudWerx Hires Former Google Exec As New CTO CloudWerx is a Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup that already has more than 200 customers, along with a 100 percent customer retention rate. CloudWerx anticipates strong collaboration between both newly hired executives with planned joint ownership on a number of technical initiatives.