Hike Messenger, on Monday, said it has appointed Rajesh Rudraradhya as its Vice-President and Head of Engineering.

He will report to founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kavin Bharti Mittal, and will be responsible for helping Hike scale up its engineering team and streamlining product development, the company said.

Rudraradhya will lead a global team and will be based out of Delhi. His joining follows other leadership announcements at Hike Messenger in the last six months including Vidur Vyas as Vice President, Marketing; Hemant Goyal as Vice President, Finance; Gautam Vohra as General Counsel; Sumit Mehra as Studio Head and Vikrant Bhatnagar as Head of Human Resources.

“Rajesh understands Hike’s mission to bring India online. His passion to solve consumer problems will enable us to realise our mission and build Hike into a product loved by 100’s of millions of people,” Mittal, said.

Rudraradhya spent the last 15- plus years in the Silicon Valley, working for companies like Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Google and Motorola.

He joins Hike from Motorola where he was most recently the Director and Head of Wearables and Internet-of-Things software. Before that, he led Android Apps and Cloud engineering and was responsible for software experiences on Android’s best smartphones, the Moto X and Moto G series.

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