E-commerce platform Flipkart has appointed Goda Ramkumar as Vice President, Data Science & AI Solutions, Mohan Palisetti as Vice President, Fintech & Payments Engineering, and Nitesh Jain as Distinguished Architect, strengthening its technology leadership as the company scales AI, data science, and financial services capabilities.
Ramkumar will lead the application of AI and data science across marketplace operations, customer trust and safety, planning, and fulfillment. She brings nearly two decades of experience building AI, machine learning, and analytics solutions in data-intensive environments.
Most recently, she served as Head of Data Science and Applied AI at Swiggy, leading teams working across forecasting, recommendations, logistics, fraud, and GenAI applications. Before that, she advised over 50 startups on scaling AI from pilot to organization-wide adoption, built pricing and dispatch optimization systems at Ola, and spent a decade at Sabre building forecasting and revenue management systems for global airlines.
Palisetti will focus on strengthening Flipkart’s fintech and payments ecosystem. He brings over 24 years of experience building financial products and platforms at scale. Most recently, as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Mastercard, he led the technology strategy for global real-time payment capabilities connecting billions of card endpoints. He has also held senior technology leadership roles at PayPal, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and D.E. Shaw.
Jain will drive technology strategy for Flipkart’s engineering systems, with a focus on system reliability, developer productivity, and long-term platform direction. He brings over two decades of experience building and scaling complex software systems and developer infrastructure across Razorpay, Angel One, and Walmart Global Tech. In recent years, his work has focused on helping engineering teams integrate AI into everyday workflows.
“The future of digital commerce in India will be shaped by how well technology, data and financial services come together to serve evolving customer needs,” said Balaji Thiagarajan, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Flipkart.
“As more consumers engage with digital commerce in different ways – discovering products, making payments and accessing financial services – the strength of the systems that power those experiences becomes critical. Our investments in technology leadership will help us build more relevant, seamless and trusted experiences for customers while continuing to drive innovation for sellers and partners across the ecosystem.”
