Uber’s India tech team gets a new mobility head, 85 more engineers to be hired

Uber has hired Amazon veteran Manikandan Thangarathnam as senior director to lead all rider and platform engineering teams in Bangalore. Besides this, Uber is also hiring 85 more engineers in the country in addition to 140 engineers Uber announced it was hiring last month.

Thangarathnam has been brought on board to strengthen Uber’s tech capabilities, as the company wants to position its India arm as a technology hub that’s “building and innovating for the world”.

Thangarathnam comes with over 20 years of experience in spearheading engineering efforts across global majors, including a 13-year stint at Amazon, building several core platforms and products. In his most recent role, Thangarathnam led engineering efforts for the Amazon Appstore and was instrumental in bootstrapping the tech major’s Chennai office and building a vast team of engineers.