One of the Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas is an Amazon engineer who worked on recently revealed software, but the company has angered the worker’s friends and colleagues by reportedly refusing to acknowledge his plight because “they don’t want to make him damage”. ”
Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky smiled as he unveiled the Gravitron4 chip at the Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, although he didn’t mention that an electrical engineer on the project, Sasha Troufanov, was thousands of miles away. away, in the custody of Hamas terrorists.
“It’s stupid,” one Amazon employee told the Post of his employer’s silence on the situation.
Troufanov, 28, worked for AWS Annapurna Laboratories in Tel Aviv. He was kidnapped from his parents’ home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 along with his girlfriend, her mother and his grandmother.
His father, Vitaly Troufanov, was killed in the gruesome invasion.
“They say ‘it’s not that we don’t want to [talk about Sasha]it’s going to hurt him,’” an anonymous Amazon employee told The Post on Thursday about the company’s continued refusal to acknowledge Troufanov’s terrifying experience.
But Troufanov’s mother, Lena Troufanov, and his grandmother Irena Tati, both released Wednesday, say they rely on their friends and co-workers to make decisions about what information to disclose, a spokesperson for the employee told The Post.
Sasha Troufanov, 28, was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. LinkedIn / sasha troufanov
Troufanov’s graduate friends were so disappointed by Amazon’s silence that they rented trucks with displays with his face and name to tour Las Vegas in the conference area.
“The inspiration was to say that Sasha is one of them; we tried to make a connection between the people attending the conference and the humanitarian hostage crisis,” Sasha’s friend Neta Yesood Alon told The Post.
“It’s not something distant, it’s a person like them, who has been kidnapped.”
Sasha Troufanov’s friends are disappointed by Amazon’s apparent lack of recognition. Global Communications Si14
The trucks drove down many of Sin City’s main streets, videos and photos show.
Alon said it was “disappointing” to learn that “such a large company can’t even say out loud that it has a worker hostage in Gaza.”
He rejected the idea that Amazon was risking Troufanov’s safety by speaking about him publicly.
“We spoke with the former head of the [Israeli security agency] The Mossad, Yossi Cohen… said there was no danger,” Alon insisted.
“It’s not even difficult to know that he works for Amazon. You search his name, you get a LinkedIn that says he works there… it’s not like a secret job,” she added.
Troufanov works for Amazon’s Annapurna Laboratories. LinkedIn / sasha troufanov
“When Amazon said it would be harmful, we did our checking and [Cohen] “He said it would be safe to talk about it.”
Both Alon and the anonymous Amazon employee noted that another hostage, Avinatan Or, worked as an engineer at artificial intelligence computer giant Nvidia.
“The global CEO [of Nvidia] “He’s been in close contact with his family, they got a big bonus… it’s a clear idea how to handle it, because Nvidia has been amazing,” the employee told The Post.
Immediately after Troufanov’s kidnapping, the anonymous employee explained, those who knew him from the Tel Aviv office asked Amazon management for help with the campaign to return him and his family.
“We shouldn’t even have to…ask management to acknowledge that we have a kidnapped employee,” they told The Post.
Amazon unveiled a project Troufanov worked on this week. Global Communications Si14
At first, they continued, the company hired a rescue expert.
“Which is not really the case here: these people will not come back with money,” they explained.
Then the company hired another consultant, “who won’t do anything either, but will accept your money and won’t say she can’t,” laments the employee.
Amazon leaders have allegedly been so secretive about Sasha that “many people [in the company] “I don’t even know.” Hamas took him away, they added.
“I think the silence is foolish,” the employee insisted, saying that the company’s “values went out the window” when the war between Israel and Hamas began.
“Do they ‘strive to be the best employer in the world’? Actually? You have an employee who was kidnapped…his entire family was kidnapped or murdered! the employee insisted.
“It’s nonsense.”
Other employees at the company also feel unsupported as the war between Israel and Hamas drags on, the employee added.
Sasha Troufanov’s friends rented trucks to project her face at the Las Vegas conference. Global Communications Si14
“There’s a lot of hate growing in Slack channels,” they said.
News of Amazon’s alleged silence about Troufanov and his family’s suffering also began to circulate on social media, where Shaun Maguire from Sequioa introduced him in an emotional thread X.
“Sasha’s father was buried without any family present – it was recorded in case his family ever returns home… AND STILL AMAZON IS SILENT,” Maguire wrote.
Troufanov’s friends are encouraged by some positive updates: His mother and grandmother, Irena Tati, were freed by Hamas on Wednesday, and his girlfriend, Sapir Cohen, was freed on Thursday.
Troufanov will also be honored at a hostage memorial rally outside the Amazon conference on Thursday. Global Communications Si14
“The other group of friends stayed in Israel and visited Lena and Ilena; they’re alive, so it’s great news,” Alon told The Post.
Meanwhile, Alon and another friend, Shahar Cohen, flew from Israel to Las Vegas on Thursday to participate in a rally for Gaza hostages outside the Venetian, where Re:Invent is taking place.
“It’s for all the hostages — Sasha is just the connection between the tech community and the hostage issue,” Alon said of Thursday afternoon’s rally, which was planned in collaboration with the Las Vegas chapter of the Israeli American Council .
“It’s been 55 days [since they were taken] – and 55 days too long,” he said.
The event is expected to draw “between 300 and 400 people,” Alon told The Post.
Loved ones in the family are also worried about what Troufanov will find when he returns.
“Their father was killed, their kibbutz was burned down and they have no home to return to,” Alon said.
“The people who were left alive need to start a new life, with a lot of pain for those who left.”
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