Go Daddy announced today that is opening a permanent Seattle-area office in Kirkland or Bellevue, Washington n June.
According to a Press Release out today, Godaddy is already operating out of a temporary office near Carillon Point in Kirkland, as Go Daddy has hired “veteran executives from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and eBay, among others.
“The reason to join Go Daddy is simple … you can make a difference at a company that is hell-bent on changing the world,” Irving said. “We have the opportunity to help small businesses in ways no one else in the space is doing right now. This is a chance to change lives in profound ways, to expand the world’s economy by empowering people to start, grow and successfully run their small businesses. I’ve yet to meet a great engineer or developer who doesn’t want to leave their mark on this world in a meaningful way.”
“Irving recently hired Chief Architect Arnold Blinn, a tech heavyweight, who spent 17 years at Microsoft Corporation in senior architect roles.
“Go Daddy has hired a range of top-tier talent, with a diverse skill set, to work out of its offices in Kirkland/Bellevue, Sunnyvale, Calif., Denver, Colo., Hiawatha, Iowa and its corporate headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz.”
“The new recruits who have joined Go Daddy include:
Chief Architect Arnold Blinn, 17-year Microsoft veteran, 25 patents issued and another 25 pending in electronic commerce, digital rights management, photo manipulation and other online services. Blinn is the founder and architect of eShop, one of the Web’s first and most successful early eCommerce businesses, which was purchased by Microsoft in 1996. Since then he has served as Partner Architect and incubation leader for some of Microsoft’s most innovative products, including Xbox Live, Windows Live and MSN.
CTO & EVP Platforms Elissa Murphy was Yahoo! VP of engineering for cloud services and helped lead Yahoo! to be a force with code contributions for the latest version of Hadoop. She also spent 13 years at Microsoft and began her technology career in computer security with 5th Gen Systems and the Norton Group, a division at Symantec responsible for Norton Antivirus and other Norton products. Murphy brings expertise in global-scale platforms, big data and predictive analytics. She was recognized as one of the Top Women in Seattle Tech by TechFlash and currently has 14 patents issued, with another 19 patents pending.
SVP and GM Hosting Jeff King is a 17-year veteran in online commerce.…
