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episode 41: John Timsen—VP of Engineering at Qualtrics
John joined Qualtrics in February of 2015 as their Global Head of Engineering. Prior to Qualtrics, John spent 10 years at Amazon in a wide variety of roles. His most recent role at Amazon was as an Engineering Director and founding member of the Amazon Echo team, where he was responsible for building the Alexa service. Prior to Amazon, he worked at Microsoft, Active Voice Corporation, and Openwave Systems as a Software Engineer. John has focused his career on building large-scale web-based products that impact millions of users, including recommendation systems, consumer hardware products, and e-commerce products.