Whereas the revolving door has slowed at Twitter of late, as there aren’t that many individuals left to undergo it, product engineering lead Behnam Rezaei took his flip Tuesday after roughly five-and-a-half years with the corporate.
Rezaei tweeted about his departure Wednesday, saying within the feedback that it was a private resolution, and the corporate was not present process one other spherical of layoffs.
He joined Twitter in August 2017 as senior director of engineering, and he was promoted to product engineering lead in November after Elon Musk took over the corporate.
Previous to Twitter, Rezaei spent greater than 10 years as founder and chief expertise officer of expertise startup NetSeer, which offered concept-based commercial focusing on options for advertisers and publishers and was acquired by Inuvo in February 2017.
Rezaei stated in his tweet that he plans to take a while off and go “again to being a full-time papa bear.”
He was additionally complimentary of Musk, writing in his sequence of tweets, “It began with managing a suggestion group, then constructing a data-informed development org with a few of the greatest folks at Twitter, resulting in constant causal viewers development. Then working with machine studying consultants throughout the corporate to speed up personalization and synthetic intelligence within the core product and, most lately, working with Elon Musk to rework the corporate towards his imaginative and prescient and texting about product concepts or bugs with him at 3 a.m.”
Rezaei added, “I additionally realized from up shut Elon Musk’s framework to scale the effectivity of a startup to a midsize firm to attain the unachievable. Thanks, Elon.”
He tweeted, “My respect and gratitude to nice tweeps and engineers of the previous who constructed Twitter’s core product and infrastructure. This website being right here regardless of all the chances is proof of your excellence. #lovewhereyouworked My kudos to all of the wonderful folks presently at Twitter. Your onerous work, brilliance and the guts you deliver to work day-after-day to push the mission ahead are probably the most unappreciated tales of the yr. Be good, do good work and help one another. I can be rooting for you.”
