Rajesh Uppalapati

Rajesh Uppalapati

Chief Product and Technology Officer, Nykaa.

NykaaGurugram

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Experience25+ Years
LevelLeadership

Executive Overview

Twenty-five years at the intersection of engineering, product, and business — Amazon, Intuit, Nykaa. At Nykaa, I lead a 600-person org across engineering, product, design, analytics, ML/data science, and Information Security — powering five verticals in Beauty, Fashion, Man, Nysaa (GCC) and Super Store (eB2B). The work: digital and AI-native transformation, platform reliability at scale, ML systems that move commercial outcomes, and new AdTech and MarTech revenue streams. At Intuit India, I led 380 engineers delivering TurboTax and Mint to 70M consumers. Before that — two decades at Amazon, from SDE-1 to Director. As CTO of Junglee.IN and Director of Engineering for Amazon.IN built multiple India first innovaitons that went global.

Career Timeline

Professional employment history
  • NykaaCurrent
    Nov 2022–Present· 3 yrs 10 mos
    • Chief Product and Technology OfficerCurrent
      Nov 2022–Present
  • Apr 2021–Nov 2022· 1 yr 7 mos
    • Vice President of Product Engineering
      Apr 2021–Nov 2022
  • Aug 2001–Apr 2021· 19 yrs 8 mos
    • Director / Head of Engineering - Consumer Reach & Engagement.
      Feb 2017–Apr 2021
    • Sr. SDM and Head of Engineering for A.in Customer Acquistion, P2P marketplace & Category Experiences
      2016–2017
    • Sr. Engineering Manager and CTO, Junglee.com
      Oct 2012–Dec 2015
    • Software Development Manager, Junglee.com
      May 2011–Sep 2012
    • Manager, Software Development
      Jun 2007–Feb 2010
    • S/W Dev Lead
      Aug 2001–May 2007

Education

Masters

Computer Science

University of Arizona

Bachelor of Engineering

Computer Science

Osmania University

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Skills & Expertise

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Java Enterprise EditionSoftware DevelopmentSOAAgile MethodologiesScrumLinuxWeb ServicesObject Oriented DesignSoftware DesignAgile Project ManagementJavaCloud ComputingC++Enterprise SoftwareScalabilityPerlDistributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringHadoop