Flipkart has promoted Manikandan Rengaswamy Raju to Vice President of Information Technology.
Raju brings more than 25 years of experience in Product Development, Engineering, and IT Leadership. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a proven ability to create growth opportunities, build world-class technology platforms, establish global Captive Centers, and excel in various industries, including e-commerce, retail, telecom, transportation, aerospace, automation control, and corporate enterprise applications.
In his LinkedIn profile, he mentioned “I am deeply passionate about driving innovation and transformation in creative ways,”
As Senior Director of IT at Flipkart Group Companies, Raju has successfully led highly achieving teams in building supply chain networks, product development, corporate enterprise applications, hyper automation, IT asset management, and IT finance for over seven years.
Before this position, he was Senior Director IT at the same company. He was earlier associated with Juniper Networks, Honeywell Technology Solutions and Tricon Infotech.
In a LinkedIn post, Raju mentioned: “I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Vice President of Information Technology at Flipkart! This career milestone wouldn’t have been possible without the support of remarkable individuals and my incredible colleagues throughout my 25-year journey.”
Raju holds an M.S. in Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and has pursued an Executive Management program from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.