Flipkart appoints Smita Ojha, Amit Sharma as VPs to scale tech operations

E-commerce firm Flipkart on Monday announced the appointment of Smita Ojha as Vice President of Engineering and Amit Sharma as Vice President of Program Management.

The appointments are aimed at scaling the company's core technology and fuelling long-term value creation, Flipkart said in a statement.

Ojha will lead the Central Platforms Group (CPG) within Flipkart's OneTech organisation. She brings over two decades of experience and joins from Mindtickle, where she served as Senior Vice President of Engineering.

OneTech is Flipkart's unified product and technology organisation responsible for building and operating all digital experiences across the company.

Sharma will head the Technical Program Management charter for OneTech. With over 25 years of corporate experience, he previously served as a Director at Amazon and has held leadership roles at Accenture and WNS.

 

"As we enter our next phase of growth and accelerate our AI-native evolution, investing in strong leadership across technology and program management remains a key priority.

"Smita and Amit bring complementary strengths in platform engineering and large-scale execution, which will be instrumental in advancing our innovation agenda and enabling scalable, future-ready capabilities across Flipkart," Balaji Thiagarajan, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Flipkart, said.