Uber has appointed Namit Jain as Senior Director - Engineering, to lead its data, core infrastructure and platform teams in India. Jain will head a team of engineers working to boost the company's core platform and leverage data to improve efficiencies in Bengaluru's new office. The company said its tech centres in India are working across domains and geographic lines to innovate for markets globally.

Jain joins Uber with over 25 years of experience, including a long stint in the San Francisco Bay area working at Oracle and Facebook, where he was the first PMC chair for Apache Hive. After moving back to India, he started Nutanix India from scratch, a pioneer in hyper-converged infrastructure. After that, he headed engineering at Qubole, and in his most recent role, Jain was Vice President of Engineering at Cohesity, a US-based data management company.

He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, and secured his Master's in Science from the University of Minnesota in the US. Uber said it was committed to the growth and recognition of tech talent in India and aims to continue strengthening the workforce at the twin tech centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.