After leaving her role as a vice president of technology at Nest in 2015 to join Twitter, only to turn down that job to focus on her illness, Yoky Matsuoka found her place with Apple working on the company’s healthcare initiatives.
That, however, didn’t last long. Just seven months after joining Apple’s health team, where she worked on projects like Healthkit, Carekit and Researchkit, Matsuoka has left the company for unknown reasons, rejoining Nest in the process.
In returning to Nest, Matsuoka will be responsible for defining engineering road maps for product teams as well as developing ways for Nest to collaborate with third-party companies and other Alphabet-owned businesses, reports Bloomberg.
Matsuoka is often credited with developing the technology that helps Nest products adapt automatically to changes in the environment and past usage. Furthermore, she’s helped invent a lifelike robotic hand and also co-founded X, the Alphabet research lab responsible for the company’s Google’s driverless car and Google Glass.
This move comes six months after Nest founder and former CEO Tony Fadell left the company. Shortly after, Alphabet reportedly shuffled developers from Nest over to Google to work on its smart home platform.
Nest is currently led by former Charter CTO Marwan Fawaz, though the company hasn’t released anything new categorically since it was bought by Google in 2014.
[source]Bloomberg[/source]
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