Snapchat Hired EX-Googler

Yesterday SnapChat announces that they brining Google App Engine director Peter Magnusson on boards as VP of Engineering. Recently, SnapChat receives lots of fuzz about online frauds going on with the app, but due to these incidents they need someone to fix the image in industry. With little investment in technology, the young company could add more security features into their software’s and chop off the potential security threats. Magnusson is latest technology person in industry and poached by so many other firms. Timothy Sehn, a former director of Amazon joined in and Facebook executive Emily white left company to be COO at SnapChat.

WSJ published a report “For the record, the quote “Part of his new job at Snapchat will be building technology infrastructure in-house so that the company can begin to lessen its reliance on partners like Google, Murphy said.” is (a) not what Bobby said, (b) not really a focus of my job either. Thx WSJ for pissing off all my old Google friends. A more correct statement is that we’ll continuously evaluate alternatives, and likely over time develop more infrastructures ourselves, in particular in specialized areas of our apps. Google is a great partner, and the success of Snapchat would simply not have been possible without Google Cloud, and we expect to work closely together. Period”

Security is the main concern for Snapchat because it already faced a huge data breached, which exposed million usernames and password of several customers. Firm apologizes and updated the app with new security parameters. Building a security team “will be a major priority for the company” said CTO of Corp. SnapChat is growing now but Company should hire more Engineers to build a new and good security team to prevent such huge data theft.