Knimbus, has appointed Kunwar Asheesh Saxena as their Senior Vice President -Product Development & Engineering. Knimbus is a cloud based information search and collaboration platform that connects creators and users of Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) knowledge.
Asheesh assumes this leadership position at Knimbus following an exceptional tenure with MakeMyTrip as Director - Technology Development. Asheesh has over 14 years of experience in strategic planning, development and integration of enterprise systems. In his previous roles, he has been responsible for setting up the technology roadmap and strategy for diverse business channels.
At MakeMyTrip, Asheesh was the Technical Head for multiple lines of businesses such as Hotels, Bus, Rails, B2B and Affiliates. During this tenure he implemented solutions for high transactions sites in multi-data-centre distributed architecture with latest Big Data technologies like SOLR, Cassandra and many more. His international experience in delivering solutions to organizations like EDS, Lastminute.com, Accovia, Zuji, British Midland and the Dubai Government and working with cross cultural teams across China, Canada, Europe and the Middle East, makes him very well suited to contribute to Knimbus’s ongoing engineering and development efforts.
“We are very pleased to welcome Asheesh to the Knimbus team and owner circle. He is an excellent addition to lead our future efforts given his extensive experience in building online products which delivered a delightful user experience and scaled to millions of visitors”, said Mr. Rahul Agarwalla, Founder & CEO, Knimbus.
Talking about his appointment Asheesh said, “I am delighted to be a part of the revolution that Knimbus is creating in the STM research space. I look forward to taking Knimbus’ technology innovation to the next level and working with the team to execute a roadmap to achieve the next phase of growth for the company”.
