Yahoo application platform leader Sam Pullara has been appointed Chief Technologist, the company announced internally yesterday. Pullara will be working under new CTO "Ari" Balogh.
Pullara says he'll be working with customers, internal technology teams and closely with the M&A team. In his previous position he was responsible for the Yahoo! Open Application Platform, Yahoo! Pipes and the Yahoo! Query Language, sometimes referred to as "Pipes for the command line."
Increased leadership at the company for such a strong innovator in the Open Web world is a great sign. Open web community members appear very supportive of Pullara and we're excited to see what he can do. Despite its business woes, Yahoo has been one of the best large actors in the data portability and standards movements in the last several years.
Thanks to Chris Messina for the tip.
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That's great news.
Re Pipes for Command Line, I wonder if that'd work nicely with Ubiquity or suchlike?
Being able to interactively mashup using something as nice as ubiquity would be incredible.
Or, am I talking out of me flat-cap?
Posted by: Zach Beauvais | February 13, 2009 11:15 AM
Let's see, a role with no reports, no deliverables, no responsibility and no authority. Sounds like Sam couldn't ship and could handle being in a product. I guess he is running back to his roots of just tinkering. Basically his old Corp Dev job but reporting to the CTO. I guess this is Yahoo's new EIR program. I thought Yahoo was cutting out these types of roles.
But seriously, congratulations to Sam. I know it is something he really wanted and it is a role he is good at.
Posted by: Nick Marple | February 13, 2009 12:34 PM
@Nick Marple
Ouch! But, you're 100% on point.
Sam isn't someone who should be in charge of shipping anything in production. Shove him in a cube and leave him be to dick around. Bring him out from time to time to make sure he doesn't explode (he appears to need to pontificate aloud a few hours/day) but be sure to keep him the fuck away from people trying to get work done, the guy loves to distract the nerds with random chatter. It's like he doesn't have any work to do. Oh, right, he doesn't.
Congrats to Sam, this is a huge win for Yahoo.
Posted by: Guy | February 13, 2009 2:03 PM