will double its
India tech workforce in the next 3-5 years as the country becomes a key hub for development, said
Praveen Neppalli Naga, global chief technology officer, mobility and delivery.Naga, in his first visit to India after taking on the new role, told ET that Uber has expanded fast in India since establishing the hub in 2014 on the back of quality
engineering talent available in the country.
The company's engineering team currently employs 2,200, double of what the company employed three years ago, across functions such as engineering, data science, design and product. "While we cannot share the numbers now, we will grow at the same rate as we have and will double the workforce in the next 3-5 years," Naga said.
He said that for global technology companies there are not enough people to build products and services. But with AI, one can build everything that needs to be built and the only limitation is that of ideas, he said. The firm is also mulling its own AI model since they have proprietary data to build pricing and matching algorithms, for delivery and personalisation for the future. "But we need to make sure of the
privacy aspects," he said.
