Shuttl appoints Ex Snapdeal Director Amit Kumar Gupta As Head Of Engineering

Shuttl, India’s largest bus aggregation platform today announced the appointment of Amit Kumar Gupta as Head of Engineering. Amit comes from Snapdeal where he was a Director in the technology team and was responsible for building many key pieces such as the buyer platform (catalog, user profiles and security), seller platform (content management) and data analytics platform (personalization & recommendation, buyer personas, one customer view). With an experience spanning more than a decade, Amit brings in rich technical insight and aims to build a world class, full stack technology solution at Shuttl.

Amit Singh, Co-founder – Shuttl, said “Amit’s rich experience in making a personalized technology product will help Shuttl create an interactive transportation platform. His experience in past roles will be valuable for us as we improve the product. I’m very excited to welcome Amit and look forward to working with him.”

Speaking about his new role, Amit Kumar said, “Shuttl is a new-age product and can transform the way we look at daily commute. The company has been able to achieve tremendous growth in a short time and I look forward to helping Amit and the team achieve their vision of a smart, green and reliable public transport system.” Amit will work towards building a world class technology team that looks to solve large problems, build great scalable systems and develop products that make the consumer commute experience as smooth as possible.

Shuttl was founded in April 2015 and has led the way in the app-based bus service category in India. Over the past 7 months, the company has scaled extremely fast and is averaging around 15,000 rides per day across Delhi NCR. Shuttl aims to continue adding routes to its platform and attract top talent across disciplines to solve public transportation problems across Indian cities.