 He also previously worked as vice president of engineering at Twitter, team lead for Azure at Microsoft and senior vice president of apps and services at Palm.Raised in Saratoga, California, Abbott earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1994 from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and has completed coursework towards a PhD from the University of Washington.Abbott began his career in 1994 as a research associate at SRI International.