Who Is Twitter's New CEO Parag Agrawal?

Jack Dorsey resigned and announced Parag Agrawal his successor on Monday.

By Reuters | Updated: 30 November 2021 10:27 IST

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Parag Agrawal joined Twitter as a software engineer and has been with the company for over a decade

Highlights

Parag Agrawal has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University
Agrawal joined Twitter as a software engineer
Agrawal worked at Microsoft, Yahoo, and AT&T Labs in their research unit

Twitter on Monday promoted company insider and technology head Parag Agrawal to replace Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey. The social media networking platform joins tech giants Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet in tapping a company insider for the top job.

Here are some facts about Agrawal:

Decade with Twitter

Agrawal joined Twitter as a software engineer and has been with the company for over a decade. He was appointed chief technology officer in October 2017.

Parag Agrawal Becomes Twitter's New CEO as Jack Dorsey Steps Down

He oversaw Twitter's technical strategy and was responsible for improving the pace of software development, while advancing the use of machine learning across the company.

Project Bluesky

Since December 2019, Agrawal has also been working on Project Bluesky, an independent team of open source architects, engineers and designers to combat abusive and misleading information on Twitter.

Bluesky is seeking to introduce a new decentralised technology, the idea being that Twitter and others will become clients of Bluesky and rebuild their platforms on top of the standard, Dorsey has said previously.

Ex-Microsoft, Yahoo employee

Before joining Twitter, Agrawal worked at Microsoft, Yahoo, and AT&T Labs in their research units, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Stanford graduate

Agrawal has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

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