Former Amazon Executive Becomes New CTO at Gojek

JAKARTA – Gojek officially appointed former Amazon Executive Severan Rault as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) New group. Severan will replace Ajey Gore in managing Gojek’s engineering teams in Southeast Asia and India.

“We welcome Severan to become Gojek’s CTO. Severan’s deep expertise, enthusiasm and leadership will take Gojek’s product and service development to a higher level,” said Gojek Co-CEO Kevin Aluwi, in a written statement received. VOI, Wednesday, July 22.

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Kevin explained, Severan will be responsible for the entire technology in the Gojek ecosystem, including providing access to various services ranging from transportation to GoPay payments. According to Kevin, on a complexity scale, Gojek wants to develop to a higher level.

Severan is not new to the global technology industry. With more than 20 years of experience, Severan has held key positions in major companies such as Amazon and Microsoft.

At Amazon, Severan was a Director of Software Development and also led his engineering team to create Amazon Prime Air. An Amazon-owned goods delivery service using drones or drones.

Not only that, Severan has also held important executive positions at Microsoft. Where he became Principal Architect at Bing, as well as Principal Development Manager for Microsoft OneApp.

As a seasoned entrepreneur, Several also founded the wireless solutions company Kikker Interactive, which Microsoft acquired in 2008. He has also created a virtual reality company (virtual reality) named Betawave which was the last company he worked for before joining Gojek.

“I joined Gojek because of the company’s positive social mission. Helping millions of people to earn income is a satisfaction in itself,” said Severan.

Severan admitted that the technical challenges related to the development of services needed by the community were very challenging to develop. Starting from the development issues required by the most advanced cloud solutions, to the deep application of artificial intelligence technology.

“Gojek is like a dream for an innovator like me,” he added, who has joined Gojek as Head of Engineering platform lokapasar (marketplace), since early 2020.

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