The defamed CEO of Astronomer Andy Byron, who was positioned on go away by the corporate, after his video canoodling with the HR chief went viral, has tendered his resignation. Astronomer issued a press release Saturday saying that the Board of of Administrators has accepted the resignation. In its assertion, Astronomer additionally mirrored how their popularity modified in a single day due to the incident and asserted that Astronomer’s product and companies haven’t modified.“As acknowledged beforehand, Astronomer is dedicated to the values and tradition which have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are anticipated to set the usual in each conduct and accountability, and not too long ago, that customary was not met. Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Administrators has accepted. The Board will start a seek for our subsequent Chief Government as Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy continues to function interim CEO. Earlier than this week, we have been referred to as a pioneer within the DataOps house, serving to information groups energy every little thing from fashionable analytics to manufacturing AI. Whereas consciousness of our firm might have modified in a single day, our product and our work for our prospects haven’t. We’re persevering with to do what we do greatest: serving to our prospects with their hardest information and AI issues,” the corporate mentioned.Andy Byron and Astronomer’s HR chief Kristin Cabot attended the Coldplay live performance in Boston Wednesday evening. They have been caught on a Jumbotron on the live performance as Coldplay’s Chris Martin drew the eye of the viewers to the canoodling pair. Once they noticed themselves on the large display, they ducked the digital camera and obtained awkward. Chris Martin made it extra awkward saying that both they have been very shy or they have been having an affair.By Thursday morning, the second choice proved to be right because the video of the second went viral and other people recognized them because the Astronomer CEO and the chief of HR.The video snowballed into an unprecedented Web frenzy as social media customers seemed them up and came upon every little thing about their private {and professional} lives. They have been positioned on go away as Astronomer introduced an investigation into the difficulty and named Pete DeJoy because the performing CEO.