Didi has poached Charlie Miller, the famed engineer who hacked and stopped a Jeep remotely, away from none other than Uber’s self-driving department to lead Didi’s security and safety development teams. Miller announced he was leaving Uber last week.
Miller will report to Dr. Fengmin Gong, the co-founder of Palo Alto Networks and now Didi’s vice president of information security.
Didi has also poached engineers away from Google’s self-driving arm. Jia Zhaoyin, last a senior software engineer at Google’s self-driving project Waymo, is now a principal engineer at Didi.