Shantanu Preetam is PayU India's chief technology officer

​Digital payments player PayU has appointed Shantanu Preetam as its chief technology officer and he will be responsible for leading tech innovations and engineering at the Bengaluru-based startup.

Before joining PayU, Preetam was part of a team that built the core ecommerce systems at Walmart, driving end-to-end cloud transformation and facilitating growth.

He has more than 23 years of experience in building software products and driving a digital transformation strategy at different companies.

“One of our key focus areas going forward for PayU is omni-channel solutions, to enable merchants to offer flexible offline-to-online solutions and we are confident he (Preetam) will play an integral part in achieving our vision to build a full-fintech ecosystem, offering a set of inter-related services to meet all the financial needs of consumers and merchants on a single platform,” said Anirban Mukherjee, CEO, PayU India.