{"id":12116,"date":"2021-09-15T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T13:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=12116"},"modified":"2021-09-16T08:54:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T12:54:39","slug":"ubers-chief-technical-officer-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/ubers-chief-technical-officer-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber\u2019s Chief Technical Officer Steps Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p data-ar-index=\"0\">Uber&#8217;s chief technology officer Sukumar Rathnam is stepping down from his role as the company&#8217;s head of engineering, Business Insider reported. A spokesperson for the ride-hailing service also confirmed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p data-ar-index=\"1\">While the spokesperson refuses to say the reason for Rathnam&#8217;s departure, Business Insider&#8217;s report revealed that a growing dispute between Rathnam and the company&#8217;s chief product officer, Sundeep Jain, may also have been among the factors that prompted Rathnam&#8217;s eventual departure from the company.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">A Uber spokesperson, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Rathnam plans to leave in early October, a year after joining the ride-hailing service.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">Prior to joining Uber, Rathnam had worked for some of the world&#8217;s top tech companies, including Amazon and Microsoft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uber-management\/ubers-chief-technical-officer-to-step-down-idUSKBN2GA227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber&#8217;s chief technology officer Sukumar Rathnam is stepping down from his role as the company&#8217;s head of engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[212,62,95],"class_list":["post-12116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-amazon","tag-microsoft","tag-uber"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12142,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116\/revisions\/12142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}