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Indian mobile wallet company MobiKwik has appointed Virender Bisht as its Chief Technology Officer. Bisht, who most recently served as VP-Technology at MakeMyTrip.com, will oversee all aspects of product research and development, user experience design and tech infrastructure of MobiKwik.
Bisht comes with over 14 years of experience in creating software products at MakeMyTrip, Educomp, Studyplaces.com, TribalFusion, Exponential, and TCS.
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Bipin Preet Singh, Founder CEO, MobiKwik said, “Bringing Virender on board as the Chief Technology Officer is one of our many steps towards constantly enhancing the technology behind our product. We are a product focused startup and we believe that creating wow payment experiences for our consumers will result in strong acceptance of our Digital Wallet. With Virender’s background, we are certain that he will play a critical role in creating a robust Engineering team and a culture of Excellence at MobiKwik which will further reflect in our product.”
Singh also added that the company is aggressively hiring and plan to double the strength of its technology team of Android engineers, Java engineers, Server engineers, UI frontend engineers, and UX designers.
Virender is a hands-on techie with experience across B2C and eCommerce companies in Mobile Apps, Online Payments, Content Management and Enterprise Software. He has a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.
Virender’s appointment comes as a part of MobiKwik’s steady wave of expansion. The 90 people Wallet company plans to make other strategic appointments in the near future. It has announced plans to hire a Chief Marketing Officer, Head of Business Development & Partnerships and Head of Products over the next 2-3 months.
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