Shuttl, the bus aggregation platform today announced the appointment of Amit Kumar Gupta as Head of Engineering. Amit comes from Snapdeal where he was a Director in the technology team and was responsible for building
many key pieces such as the buyer platform (catalog, user profiles and
security), seller platform (content management) and data analytics
platform (personalization & recommendation, buyer personas, one
customer view). With an experience spanning more than a decade, Amit
brings in rich technical insight and aims to build a world class, full
stack technology solution at Shuttl.
Amit Singh, Co-founder – Shuttl, said
“Amit’s rich experience in making a personalized technology product will
help Shuttl create an interactive transportation platform. His
experience in past roles will be valuable for us as we improve the
product. I’m very excited to welcome Amit and look forward to working
with him.”
Speaking about his new role, Amit Kumar
said, “Shuttl is a new-age product and can transform the way we look at
daily commute. The company has been able to achieve tremendous growth in
a short time and I look forward to helping Amit and the team achieve
their vision of a smart, green and reliable public transport system.”
Amit will work towards building a world class technology team that looks
to solve large problems, build great scalable systems and develop
products that make the consumer commute experience as smooth as
possible.
Shuttl was founded in April 2015 and has
led the way in the app-based bus service category in India. Over the
past 7 months, the company has scaled extremely fast and is averaging
around 15,000 rides per day across Delhi NCR. Shuttl aims to continue
adding routes to its platform and attract top talent across disciplines
to solve public transportation problems across Indian cities.
