Uber, the Vietnamese chief technology officer, resigned

According to information from Bloomberg, Uber's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Thuan Pham will resign after 7 years with the company. Recently Uber has been struggling and the latest Covid-19 translation has made the company suffer heavy losses.

A source said Uber will also cut 20% of jobs among 27,000 employees by the end of last year.

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An Uber spokesman declined to comment. "As you can see, the company is considering every possible scenario to ensure that this crisis can be overcome in a stronger position than ever before," he said.

Members of Uber's engineering team will be in charge of Thuan Pham's work until the company finds a new potential CTO.

Born in Vietnam, Thuan Pham holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has worked with many different technology companies including the former director of VMware software manufacturer. when it became CTO of Uber in 2013.

Regarding the resignation issue, Thuan Pham informed the company from April 24 and this decision will take effect from May 16. In a statement, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he was "thankful" for Thuan Pham's tenure. "As the head of engineering team for 7 years, Thuan Pham has made an important contribution to help Uber become the current global technology platform."

For his part, Thuan Pham said that Uber's engineering team is operating at the "highest productivity" and "we have built a strong system and will be well prepared to face the future."

Uber is still unprofitable, having cut 1,100 jobs last year. Prior to the arrival of Covid-19, the company expects that it will start to have a profitable profit by the end of this year. However, earlier this month the company was forced to withdraw its financial forecast for 2020 and said it would record a $ 2 billion reduction in investments because of Covid-19.