Indonesian ride-hailing giant Gojek today announced that it has appointed Severan Rault as its group chief technology officer.
The announcement comes after the company’s former CTO Ajey Gore stepped down last month to “take a personal break” after serving at Gojek for five years.
Gojek’s new chief technology officer Severan Rault / Photo credit: Gojek
Rault, who’s based in Singapore, will oversee all of the technology behind Gojek’s ecosystem, from transportation and payments to food delivery, logistics, and several other on-demand services. He will also manage the company’s engineering teams across Southeast Asia and India, Gojek said in a statement.
Rault joined Gojek earlier this year as head of engineering for the company’s marketplace platform. As the group CTO, he will now report to Gojek co-CEO Kevin Aluwi.
“The company is entering a critical phase as it moves from startup to maturation,” Rault said. “The engineering challenges associated with that are fascinating, ranging from the incredible scaling issues that call for the most cutting-edge cloud solutions to the deep application of artificial intelligence technologies.”
With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, Rault was the director of software development at Amazon, where he led the team to found Amazon Prime Air, the company’s drone delivery service.
Prior to Amazon, Rault had worked at Microsoft for over four years, serving as the principal architect of search engine Bing and the principal development manager for OneApp, which enables feature phones to run popular mobile apps.
He also founded two companies: wireless solutions firm Kikker Interactive, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, and virtual reality company Betawave, where he had worked before moving to Gojek.
Editing by Charmaine de Lazo
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