Google engineer, Miguel Andrés, joins Badi as CTO

Former Google senior engineer head joins Badi as CTO

Badi is an artificial intelligence (AI) backed room rental marketplace in Europe

Miguel Andrés, formerly Google’s senior engineer lead joins the company as the new chief technology officer with the aim of continuing to transform the property sector following the company’s recent $30m Series B funding announcement.

Badi's end-to-end platform connects landlords with potential tenants through the use of AI. The company allows anyone to publish, find and book a room from anywhere in the world.

New hire opens the Silicon Valley door

With this new hire, Badi not only opens the door to attract talent from one of the world’s great technology hubs, Silicon Valley, but also integrates one of the engineers responsible for strategic development areas at Google, San Francisco.

Andrés leaves the Google HQ where he was the global leader of Google Pay’s public transport service (with launches in the US and the United Kingdom, among other countries). Previously he was in charge of the engineering team that led the launch of Google Pay in Japan and several projects related to security at Google.

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