Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Chief Technologist Sam Pullara is leaving the company, capping off a week of high-profile departures. At Yahoo, Pullara was “responsible for ensuring that products we develop are competitive and provide compelling customer experiences by driving a dialogue between internal product groups, research and business leaders,” according to his LinkedIn profile; he also represented Yahoo on the board of the OpenSocial Foundation and had helped launch its ‘open application platform’—which lets third-party developers build apps for Yahoo properties. Pullara is taking a job as an entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital.

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