Rakesh Ravuri is a CTO & SVP in Publicis Sapient's Engineering Capability. As the CTO for Publicis Sapient, Rakesh heads engineering strategy and engineering capability development in India. Rakesh also plays the role of engineering lead globally for all Publicis Sapient's Retail engagements. This is Rakesh's second innings at Sapient. He has served in various engineering roles for Publicis Sapient's partners in Retail & Financial industries, delivering internet scale e-commerce solutions, high frequency trading and real time risk evaluation systems. He has experience leading cross geography teams and proven track record of enabling business outcomes working in a GDD model. Prior to joining Sapient, Rakesh worked as Director of Technology at Amazon led the team to help roll out Amazon Shipping product in four countries and was Chief Architect at Tesco for their online systems and helped rollout their international groceries ecommerce platform in nine countries. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from NIT Surathkal and a Master's Degree specializing in robotics from Texas A&M.