Former Amazon Executive Becomes New CTO At Gojek

Severan Rault as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Gojek Group (doc. Gojek Indonesia)

JAKARTA - Gojek officially appointed former Amazon Executive Severan Rault as the new Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO). 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 by VOI, Wednesday, July 22. .

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 the 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 an experienced entrepreneur, Several also founded the wireless solutions company Kikker Interactive, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008. He also created a virtual reality company called 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 development issues that are needed by the most advanced cloud solutions, to 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 for the marketplace platform, since the beginning of 2020.