Uber CEO Travis Kalanick with its new SVP of Engineering, Amit Singhal
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Google's former search chief, Amit Singhal, is back out of retirement after a year and joining Uber as its new SVP of engineering.

In Melbourne SEO SEO Melbourne the role, the engineer who spent 15 years at Google leading its search teams will be directly advising Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski, the head of Uber's self-driving divisions.

Singhal had been at Google for 15 years before he seemingly retired in February 2016
to spend Illuminated Marketing more time doing philanthropic work. He set up an education foundation
in India in the last year, but realized in the process just how hard http://illuminatedmarketing.com.au transportation is to solve. He had to create a special bus route
to make sure kids got to school.

That lead to discussions with Kalanick, and Uber's engineering problems proved too enticing for Singhal to remain in retirement and away from tech companies:

"In fact as I dug deeper into how Uber works, it became pretty clear that this is one of the hardest-and therefore most fun-computer science and engineering challenges in the world today. It