Raffi Krikorian

Raffi Krikorian (Armenian: Րաֆֆի Գրիգորեան; born 1978) is an Armenian-American technology executive, and the CTO of the Emerson Collective.[1] He was the CTO of the Democratic National Committee,[2] Head of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center,[3][4][5][6] and the former VP of Platform Engineering at Twitter where he was in charge of infrastructure for all of Twitter[7] up to August 2014.[8] He is credited with leading the charge to improve the reliability of Twitter [9][10] as well as the move from Ruby to the JVM.[11] He currently also serves on the board of directors of the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia.

  1. ^ Cramer, Ruby (2019-03-14). "The Democratic Party's Chief Technology Officer Will Step Down". Buzzfeed. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
  2. ^ Romm, Tony (2017-06-28). "Democrats have hired Raffi Krikorian, a former Uber exec, as their chief technology officer". Recode. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  3. ^ Lunden, Ingrid (2015-03-25). "Uber Snags Raffi Krikorian, Former Twitter VP, As Engineering Lead For Its Moonshot Projects". TechCrunch.
  4. ^ Harding, Xavier (2016-09-13). "Pitt Stop: Inside Uber's Driverless Car Experiment". Popular Science.
  5. ^ Reid, Liz (2016-09-14). "What It's Like To Ride In A (Nearly) Self-Driving Uber". NPR.
  6. ^ "One of Uber's top self-driving engineers, Raffi Krikorian, is stepping down".
  7. ^ Ding, Xuefeng (2013-06-19). "Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure". InfoQ.
  8. ^ uɐᴉɹoʞᴉɹʞ ᴉɟɟɐɹ (8 August 2014). "Tweet Number 497825851900063744". Twitter. Retrieved 10 October 2014. i'm leaving @twitter. bio: "VP, Platform Engineering @ Twitter. i break all the things." → "TBD. i break things." https://twitter.com/raffi/status/497825851900063744/photo/1 {{cite web}}: External link in |quote= (help)
  9. ^ Krikorian, Raffi (2013-08-16). "New Tweets per second record, and how!". Twitter.
  10. ^ Metz, Cade (2013-09-25). "The Second Coming of Java: A Relic Returns to Rule Web". Wired.
  11. ^ Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM.