#google’s former head of search joins #uber to lead its maps division
January 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Amit Singhal, the former Google engineer who helped perfect the search engine’s ranking algorithm, is joining Uber as senior vice president of engineering, the ride-hail company announced today.
Catching the next ride of my professional journey with @travisk at @Uber pic.twitter.com/EGQn7VQTDJ
— Amit Singhal (@theamitsinghal) January 20, 2017
Singhal will report directly to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski, vice president of engineering and head of Uber’s self-driving car division. He will head up the ride-hailing startup’s Maps and Marketplace division, and will work to scale up Uber’s self-driving engineering unit.
Singhal becomes the latest ex-Google wiz to join the fast-growing ride-hailing company. He will work…
