Stack Overflow 宣布 Prashanth Chandrasekar 为新任 CEO，他将从 10 月 1 日开始担任该职位。Prashanth 是一位经验丰富的技术领导者，曾在 Rackspace 成功地将公司从一家领先的托管公司转型为云服务公司。他将领导 Stack Overflow 继续其使命，即让知识工作者能够获得他们需要的信息来解决问题，并推动公司在企业软件方面的增长。

🎉 **Prashanth Chandrasekar 被任命为 Stack Overflow 的新任 CEO**：Prashanth 是一位经验丰富的技术领导者，曾在 Rackspace 成功地将公司从一家领先的托管公司转型为云服务公司。他拥有丰富的技术和管理经验，并对 Stack Overflow 的使命和愿景有着深刻的理解。

🚀 **Stack Overflow 的未来目标**：Stack Overflow 的目标是让平台更加多元化、包容和友好，并使知识工作者能够使用 Stack Overflow 来获取针对其组织和团队的专有问题的答案。

🤝 **现任 CEO 将担任董事长**：现任 CEO 将继续担任 Stack Overflow 的董事长，并继续密切参与公司的发展。

🌐 **Prashanth 的背景和经验**：Prashanth 在 Rackspace 创建了一个全新的业务部门，即全球托管公共云业务，并成功地将公司转型为云服务公司。他拥有丰富的技术和管理经验，并对软件开发和云计算有着深刻的理解。

💡 **Prashanth 的领导力**：Prashanth 是一位有远见的领导者，他将带领 Stack Overflow 继续其使命，即让知识工作者能够获得他们需要的信息来解决问题，并推动公司在企业软件方面的增长。他将专注于使 Stack Overflow 更加多元化、包容和友好，并使知识工作者能够使用 Stack Overflow 来获取针对其组织和团队的专有问题的答案。

Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting to close many huge deals and becoming a hyper-growth enterprise software company very quickly. This is not something I’m particularly good at, and I thought it was time to bring on more experienced leadership.

The Board of Directors nominated a search committee and we went through almost 200 candidates. It speaks to how well respected  a company Stack Overflow is that we found ourselves in the rare position of having plenty of highly qualified executives who were excited about the opportunity. Nevertheless, one of them really stood out, and we are pleased to let you know that we have selected Prashanth Chandrasekar as our next CEO. His first day will be October 1st.

Prashanth was born in Bangalore, India, the city with the highest number of Stack Overflow users in the world, one of the global capitals for software developers writing the script for the future. He started out as a software engineer before moving over to management. He has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Maine, a Masters in Engineering Management from Cornell, and an MBA from Harvard. He worked at Capgemini as a management consultant and Barclays as an investment banker in their technology group before joining Rackspace in San Antonio, Texas.

At Rackspace, Prashanth really proved his mettle, creating from scratch a completely new business unit inside the company, the Global Managed Public Clouds Business. This group serves companies around the world who need help running on AWS, Azure, Google, and so on. Under his leadership, Rackspace successfully pivoted from a leading managed hosting company to a cloud services company. And he did this while working with developers both inside Rackspace and outside, so he understands our vision of “writing the script for the future” better than anyone I’ve met.

This is an exciting time for Stack Overflow, and we have some big goals for the year ahead. We want to make Stack Overflow more diverse, inclusive, and welcoming. And we want to make it possible for knowledge workers everywhere to use Stack Overflow to get answers to the proprietary questions that are specific to their organizations and teams. We’re doing great work and making great progress in these areas, and I’m confident that Prashanth has some great ideas about how to move forward faster on all our goals.

As you know, I’m keeping my job as Chairman of the Board, so I’ll continue to be closely involved. Being Stack Overflow’s CEO has been an honor, and I can’t wait to see the things the team accomplishes in the year ahead. This will be a great new chapter for Stack Overflow.