About

Sunil Goyal is a highly experienced and entrepreneurial CTO, with over 19 years of experience leading engineering teams across India and the US. He is currently the CTO Hotels for MakeMyTrip, where he is leading the hotels and alternate accommodation ecosystem for MakeMyTrip and Ibibo. Sunil is a passionate problem solver and has a strong focus on execution. He has built and led 300+ strong engineering teams, with expertise in building distributed and scalable architectures in payments/e-commerce, order management, promotions/growth, and mobile app/web platforms. Sunil is a blockchain enthusiast and believes that the world is going to become more decentralized than today. He is also an angel investor and is always looking for great teams with exceptional belief and perseverance. Some of his investments include Crofarm/Otipy, Yoho Footwear, ChattyBao, and Middleware Inc. Sunil has founded and sold two internet startups - Near.in (acquired by Paytm) and Wirkle (acquired by Location Labs). He was featured as Businessworld Hottest Young Entrepreneurs in 2011. Sunil has worked with some of the top companies in the industry, including Airtel and Paytm. At Airtel, he led and built a platform strategy for prepaid, postpaid, broadband, DTH product journeys available as a single platform across digital and assisted channels. He also built best-in-class payment systems for high success rates, a platform for personal loans and credit cards, and a UI widget platform to do dynamic releases and app personalization. At Paytm, Sunil was responsible for leading and rolling out multiple new products, including the Paytm app, growth and promotions platform, order platform, and cloud infra, tools, and services. Sunil holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in Mathematics and Computing. His tech stack includes senior software engineer, blockchain, mobile, web, decentralized, DevOps, UI, infra, and microservices. With over 20 years of relevant experience, Sunil is a highly sought-after CTO and thought leader in the industry.