Flipkart appoints former MakeMyTrip CTO in its technology team

E-commerce giant, Flipkart has appointed two new members, former MakeMyTrip CTO Sharat Singh and Ravi Krishnaswamy, as VP of engineering for content and infrastructure, respectively.

In their new role, Singh will be responsible for will lead the CMS engineering team which includes CMS data management, quality, content relevance, development and creation. He will drive technical strategy for content to transform user experience and shape how customers purchase products on the Flipkart app.

His previous role at MakeMyTrip included, developing and executing on global technology strategy and planning ongoing technology innovations. Sharat has over two decades of experience leading internet and media technology development. Most recently, he set up the India Centre of Excellence and led end-to-end product and delivery of engineering systems and automation at Shopzilla as MD India. He has earlier worked with Nextag, Microsoft.

As VP of engineering for infrastructure, Krishnaswamy will focus on strengthening operations across IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and for understanding and address the current challenges pertaining to organization design & bandwidth.

Previously, he worked with Microsoft and led the Azure team in building Microsoft’s next generation of cutting edge cloud OS platform. He moved on to the R&D team where he spearheaded the creation of Microsoft’s hybrid integration vision and strategy, synergizing investments across server, private cloud and public cloud. He is a hardcore technology enthusiast and is also an angel investor and advisor to early age technology startups.

Commenting on the appointment, Peeyush Ranjan, CTO and Head of engineering, Flipkart said, “Ravi’s expertise in this field and valuable know-how will certainly be an asset to the technology team at Flipkart. His many achievements in the previous organizations have made us confident that we will deeply benefit from his expansive technical and management expertise. Sharat makes an invaluable addition to the deep bench of executive talents at Flipkart. He brings with him an exceptional and strong operational capability with previous stints across leading organizations.”