New Delhi: Almost two months after Flipkart announced that it was hiring Peeyush Ranjan, former head of Google's Android One engineering group and Google India's R&D, Ranjan has put up a detailed post on LinkedIn explaining why he decided to leave Google and move to Flipkart in India.
Ranjan has joined Flipkart as senior vice president and head of engineering. He will be working closely with Mukesh Bansal, head of Flipkart commerce platform.
For Ranjan, leaving Google gives him the opportunity to be "a cross pollination agent" and he wanted to utilise an opportunity to build upon what he had learnt there.
"A lot of companies world wide could do much better than they are today by adopting practices great technology companies of the west coast consider second nature," Ranjan says.
Ranjan spent the last nine years at Google in its Mountainview, California, headquarters, where most recently he managed Google's Android One engineering group. He has also managed Motorola’s Value Devices engineering group and was Managing Director of Google India for research & development.
Why Flipkart in India
Talking about his decision to join Flipkart in India, Ranjan puts forwards two reasons. One, that Flipkart offers an unique opportunity with the huge e-commerce revolution ongoing in the country. Two, "being an engineer at heart, I knew I could only thrive in a technology company," Ranjan says.
According to Ranjan the people at Flipkart remind him of "Googlers when I walked in the doors in 2006."
Ranjan holds degrees in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur and Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Washington.
Comments
0 comment