X’s head of engineering is out
Xas director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has suddenly left the company, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.
Wang first joined Elon Muskas X in July 2023 and has been an integral part of the companyas leadership, often serving as a conduit between Musk and the rest of the companyas engineers. More recently, he was seen internally as Xas defacto head of engineering and product, especially with Musk recently focusing more of his time on xAI and DOGE. Itas unclear why Wang is departing now. Neither he nor a company spokesperson responded to a request for comment in time for publication.
X recently added other engineering leadership: Mike Dalton and Uday Ruddaraju, both previously technical leads at Robinhood, joined in January. Their LinkedIn profiles show that they also work at xAI, which has become increasingly intertwined with X over the last year.
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