{"id":604940,"date":"2009-11-11T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"52444 at http:\/\/www.webpronews.com"},"modified":"2009-11-11T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:04:18","slug":"research-scientist-heads-from-yahoo-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604940","title":{"rendered":"Research Scientist Heads From Yahoo To Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as is often the case, one tech company's loss became another's gain.&nbsp; Utkarsh Srivastava has left Yahoo after spending more than three years as a senior research scientist there, and Srivastava confirmed (in well under 140 characters) that he'll land at Twitter.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSrivastava's background is quite impressive.&nbsp; On the educational front, he earned degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology and Stanford, and happened to receive the Stanford Graduate Fellowship, too.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAround the same time, he acted as a research intern at Microsoft and then IBM, and was awarded the Microsoft Graduate Fellowship.&nbsp; Not bad.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNext, Srivastava headed to Yahoo, where according to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/utkarsh-srivastava\/4\/475\/974\">LinkedIn profile<\/a>, he became &quot;one of the original designers and developers of Pig, a high-level language for data processing over Hadoop.&nbsp; Pig is open-sourced as a subproject of Hadoop, and is routinely used in production for large data processing both within, and outside of Yahoo!.&quot;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhich more or less brings us back to the present day.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.louisgray.com\/2009\/11\/did-twitter-gain-data-management-guru.html\">Louis Gray<\/a> noticed that Srivastava had been added to a list of Twitter employees, and Srivastava confirmed it on Twitter a little later.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/meetutkarsh\/status\/5620977895\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.ientrymail.com\/webpronews\/article_pics\/UtkarshSrivastavaToTwitter.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yahoo hasn't named any sort of replacement or, as far as we can tell, chained its remaining employees to their desks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: larger;\">&gt;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/topnews\/2009\/11\/04\/more-microsoft-layoffs-on-the-way\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 105, 210); 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Utkarsh Srivastava has left Yahoo after spending more than three years as a senior research scientist there, and Srivastava confirmed (in well under 140 characters) that he&#8217;ll land at Twitter. Srivastava&#8217;s background is quite impressive.&nbsp; On the educational front, he earned degrees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xn6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}