Twitter expands engineering team in India, hiring for several positions

Microblogging and social networking service Twitter on Tuesday announced plans to expand its engineering team in India which it described as a priority market and one of its fastest-growing markets globally.

As part of these plans, the company announced appointment of Apurva Dalal as Director of Engineering who has over two decades of engineering experience spanning global organisations like Uber, Google and eBay.

He last served as the engineering site lead for Uber Bengaluru. Apurva now becomes the senior-most member of Twitter’s engineering team in the country.

Based in Bengaluru, he will be responsible for strengthening the company’s engineering capacity and offerings for local and global audiences.