For the last two-and-a-half years, Jody Bailey has served as our Chief Technical Officer, and has driven the company forward in terms of our technical infrastructure, particularly with our move to the cloud and other major pieces of work that engineering has taken on. He is a delight to work with and is well-respected for his high-performing teams.
Today, we are announcing that Jody has taken on a dual role, as Chief Product and Technology Officer. In this role, Jody will continue to oversee our Engineering Department, while also assuming responsibility for the work of the product and product innovation teams. He will continue to report to Prashanth, obviously, and is a member of the Senior Leadership Team. Jody has a wealth of experience that is relevant here, including time as Director of Software Development for Amazon Web Services, and as CTO and Head of Technology for Pluralsight.
Since joining the company, Jody has been a tremendous partner to me, and a great asset to the company, and I can’t wait to see him bring the two departments (Engineering and Product) closer together. We are setting up an opportunity for Jody to speak with community members in the near future (end of the month, probably). He’s excited about learning more about the community and working together to build products that support this community’s ongoing mission for knowledge creation and curation.
For fun, Jody is a competitive cyclist (ask him about mountain bike stage racing around the world).
