Two key engineering executives are heading to Cyanogen

Cyanogen Inc. announced today that it has hired Stephen Lawler who was Amazon’s engineering leader as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Also Karthick Iyer who was Qualcomm’s Android engineering lead as Vice President of Global Systems. Their plan is to have Lawler oversee engineering for the company worldwide while Iyer will lead systems engineering.

Before Amazon Stephen Lawler spent 15 years at Microsoft in senior roles including CTO of Bing Maps, GM of Software Development for Bing Maps, Bing Mobile, Local Search, MSN and Virtual Earth.

Karthick Iyer has been working at Qualcomm Inc. for the past 18 years where he recently led a global team that designed, developed and commercialized Android solutions at the chipset level.

Kirt McMaster, Co-founder and CEO of Cyanogen Inc. said

“Signals, services and systems are at the heart of building an evolved computing platform. Both Lawler and Iyer respectively are world class leaders in these areas, each having scaled some of the most successful computing and services platforms. Lawler brings a wealth of technical leadership in mobile, mapping, location, search, and cloud services. Iyer has deep expertise in end-to-end Android development. Both understand how to optimally scale engineering organizations.”

Cyanogen Inc. has offices in Palo Alto, Seattle and Lisbon, but plans on opening offices in China, India and Europe. CyanogenMod is open source and commercial distribution of Cyanogen OS have allowed them to be in 190 countries worldwide.

Source: Cyanogen Inc.

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