RNC Names Facebook Engineer as CTO to Boost Data Ground Game
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The Republican National Committee has hired a new head of tech in the hopes of crossing the chasm between it and the more tech-savvy party to the left. The GOP has hired Andy Barkett, former infrastructure and engineering exec at Facebook and self-proclaimed “nerd-herding” specialist, to broaden its digital and data capabilities. Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee has yet to name a permanent tech director to replace the one who left in April to work for the Obama campaign’s outside data services firm, according to sources familiar with the situation.
While at Facebook, Mr. Barkett “was in charge of dozens of engineers on six production engineering teams responsible for thousands of servers and scaling systems in mobile infrastructure, messaging, advertisements, newsfeeds, platforms, and payments,” according to an RNC statement.
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