Grab plans to double engineering strength in India, says CTO Vassilakis

We now have Grab Express, which is essentially our logistics and last-mile delivery service

Grab, which owns Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing app, has several businesses under its umbrella — payments, food delivery, logistics. The underline architecture has been a sharper focus on technology, which the Singapore-headquartered company has been able to harness effectively through strong R&D teams. India is one of the 7 locations globally where it has such a team. Theodore Vassilakis, group CTO of Grab, shares his India strategy in an interview with Yuvraj Malik. Edited excerpts:

Grab opened the Bengaluru R&D centre in March 2017. What happens there and what is the plan for it?

We said in 2017 that we’ll