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Coinbase Taps Amazon Web Services Vet as Engineering VP
Coinbase has hired Amazon Web Services general manager Tim Wagner as its new vice president of engineering.
Updated Sep 13, 2021, 8:15 a.m. Published Aug 6, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Cryptocurrency exchange startup Coinbase has hired Amazon Web Services veteran Tim Wagner as its new vice president of engineering.
Wagner was with AWS for five years, serving as a general manager and overseeing its API gateway, as well as various serverless services. Prior to that, he spent six years at Microsoft as director of development for Visual Studio Ultimate.
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The development continues Coinbase's 2018 hiring spree. Since the start of the year, the company has hired Tina Bhatnagar to serve as vice president of operations and technology; Emilie Choi as its vice president of corporate and business development; Eric Soto as vice president of finance; Rachael Horwitz as vice president of communications; Alesia Haas as its new chief financial officer; and Jeff Horowitz as its chief compliance officer, among others.
With Wagner, Coinbase is beefing up its engineering team, which the AWS vet will help grow, according to Coinbase.
"Engineering is central to our mission of creating an open financial system for the world. It is core to our strategy to deliver the most trusted and easiest to use cryptocurrency products and services. We have built an amazing engineering team at a Coinbase, one which Tim will now lead and expand," Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in a blog post announcing the hire.
Brian Armstrong and Tim Wagner image courtesy Coinbase
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