Amr Awadallah, Google Cloud's vice president of developer relations, is leaving the company, according to an internal email viewed by Insider.

Google Cloud's VP of developer relations is leaving the company after his 10,000-word LinkedIn post about Israel sparked an internal backlash

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2021-07-16 03:00:07

Amr Awadallah, Google Cloud's vice president of developer relations, is leaving the company, according to an internal email viewed by Insider.

"I wanted to share that today is Amr Awadallah's last day at Google," wrote Eyal Manor, Google VP of engineering and product, in the email, sent to Google Cloud employees on Thursday. Manor wrote that the Google Cloud developer relations team will now report to Google executive Ben Jackson.

Google confirmed Awadallah's departure in a statement to Insider, but declined to comment on the circumstances of his departure. Before arriving at Google, Awadallah was the cofounder of data analysis firm Cloudera and a one-time VP at Yahoo. Awadallah did not respond to a request for comment at the time of publication.

Awadallah's departure comes about a month after the exec published a 10,224-word LinkedIn post in which he describes his "story of redemption" from the "hatred" he felt for Jewish people earlier in his life. The LinkedIn post came with a YouTube video, over two hours long, in which Awadallah echoes many of the points made in the blog around Israel, Palestine, and antisemitism.