Flipkart hires three tech experts from Amazon, Google and Microsoft

Right ahead of the very lucrative festive season, Flipkart is strengthening its army. The e-tailer has announced three major appointments this Tuesday, and interestingly, these people have been poached from Microsoft, Google and Amazon.

You heard that right. As per the news reports, Flipkart has hired Dan Rawson as customer logistics and supply chain ecosystems head, Ravi Byakod as director of engineering – accounting and Anand Lakshminarayanan as the head of product management for digital goods and services.

As said earlier, these three are former employees of Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Rawson was the general manager of fulfilment for North America at Amazon headquarters in Seattle and at Flipkart, he will take care of all aspects of customer delivery solutions, leading product, business and operations teams. Rawson, who holds a graduate degree from the Harvard University and an MBA from Northwestern University, is also a former captain in the US Marines.

Byako, a former Google employee will lead the accounting technology for Flipkart. He had spent more than nine years in Google and was the head of engineering fort Google for Work's technology and solutions team developing data warehouses, customer relationship management programs, and partner engineering solutions out of its Mountain View, California, headquarters. Alumni of University of Alabama, Byako holds an MS in computer architecture.

Peeyush Ranjan, CTO and head of engineering at Flipkart says, “Ravi's background in building large-scale distributed systems will enable us to develop a flexible accounting platform on new architecture at scale."

Lakshminarayanan, who will lead the expansion of Flipkart's digital product offerings, has been working with Microsoft in Hyderabad, as principal group program manager of applications and services, leading the product team responsible for MSN Sports, MSN Money and MSN Health & Fitness for mobile devices and the web worldwide.