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Raffi Krikorian

Chief Technology Officer, Mozilla

Raffi Krikorian is Mozilla's first portfolio-wide Chief Technology Officer, appointed in September 2025, and chair of Mozilla.ai. He previously ran platform engineering at Twitter, directed engineering at Uber's Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, served as the Democratic National Committee's first CTO, and was CTO of Emerson Collective, where he hosted the Technically Optimistic podcast. At Mozilla he has pushed an open-source-AI agenda, publishing the inaugural State of Open Source AI report in July 2026 and arguing publicly that using AI capability should not require a permission slip.