Peeyush Ranjan
Binny Bansal
Peeyush Ranjan, former chief technology officer of Flipkart to leave the company
Ranjan will join homestay network Airbnb in the United States as vice president of engineering based out of San Francisco.Aditi Shrivastava | ET Bureau | November 30, 2016, 08:54 IST
In June, Flipkart elevated Ranjan to the position of group CTO, overseeing mobile technologies, machine learning and technology strategy at India's most valuable technology startup.
NEW DELHI: Peeyush Ranjan, the former chief technology officer of Flipkart will leave the company at the end of December marking the exit of yet another top manager from India's largest online retailer.
Ranjan will join homestay network Airbnb in the United States as vice president of engineering based out of San Francisco.
"After being elevated to group CTO, unforeseen things (personal family matters) made me move to the United States," said Ranjan, a former Google executive who made news when he moved to Bengaluru as head of engineering at Flipkart in May 2015.
"And since moving back to the USA was a key requirement, I decided to find a suitable opportunity there," said the 42-year old who said he will continue to report to Binny Bansal, Flipkart chief executive officer, while he remains at the company until 31 December.
A Flipkart spokesman confirmed Ranjan's departure but did not provide further details on his replacement.
"During my stint at Flipkart, I led several technological advancements including opening the biggest data centers in India, pioneering progressive web app technology, and most importantly scaling up the company's infrastructure," said Ranjan.
Ranjan said his most recent key initiative- Flipkart Labs in Palo Alto, which is working on deep computer vision and natural language processing, will now be led by Ravi Garikipati, the company's head of engineering.
There has been a spate of top level exits at Flipkart this year, with chief financial officer Sanjay Baweja leaving the company in October. In July, the company's legal head Rajinder Sharma, quit the firm and in February, Mukesh Bansal, head of its commerce platform and Myntra resigned.
However in June, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, formerly a managing director at Flipkart's largest shareholder Tiger Global Management, made a comeback as head of the key category management function putting him in a key position in driving the ecommerce business.
Before joining Flipkart in April 2015, Ranjan spent the last nine years in Google at its Mountain View, California headquarters, managing Google's Android One engineering group. He was the second key hire from Silicon Valley for Flipkart after it had roped in Punit Soni who was a senior product management executive for Google and Motorola.
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