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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Obama’s USDS team - MattCutts, Googles Search Engineer


The Final Days of Obama’s Tech Surge
The White House imported Silicon Valley’s best to transform government. Will Trump undo it all?
#MattCutts, #SearchEngineers Obama's tech teams are optimistic publicly but quietly fear for their programs' future after Trump inauguration; Matt Cutts in line to be interim head of USDS: Matt Cutts, who took a leave from his job as one of Google’s top search engineers (and who for years informally became the search team’s key communicator to the tech community) to join the USDS team in the Pentagon. Now Cutts has been appointed the USDS’s new director of engineering, which puts him in line to be the interim head of the service when Dickerson and Van Dyck leave. He’ll stay there until the Trump administration picks a new director — or shuts down the whole saloon.

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