Bellevue-based digital marketplace OfferUp has named Melissa Binde as the company's chief technology officer.
Binde joins OfferUp from the San Francisco-based data platform Splunk, where she spent over two years and was vice president of cloud engineering, according to her LinkedIn profile. OfferUp said in a release she will lead the marketplace's engineering and data science divisions, as well as investments to improve user experience.
"I've been amazed by OfferUp's vast potential and continued efforts to innovate on behalf of its growing community of buyers and sellers," Binde said in a news release.
Binde is replacing Ameesh Paleja, who took over the role in 2019 and left in August, according to an OfferUp spokesperson. Paleja was previously the CTO of Starz and has since become vice president of engineering at Google, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Before Splunk, Binde spent more than four years at Google, where she eventually held the role of senior director for the cloud platform's site reliability engineering teams. She also spent more than eight years at Amazon and was a software development manager.
OfferUp, founded in 2011, allows consumers to buy and sell goods locally. Its marketplace features furniture, clothes, appliances and cars, and it makes money through ads and fees on services like shipping. According to OfferUp, the company had 56 million users in 2020.
Binde's appointment as CTO comes less than a year after Todd Dunlap, a former Booking.com and Microsoft executive, took over as CEO in July. Dunlap replaced co-founder Nick Huzar as CEO, with Huzar stepping into the chief product officer role instead.
"Adding a seasoned leader in the technology space like Melissa to our growing team at OfferUp is exactly what we need to take our business to the next level," Dunlap said in a news release. "Melissa has demonstrated the ability to be a creative and collaborative leader that can innovate and drive organizational growth at scale."
