NEW DELHI: Swiggy co-founder and CTO Rahul Jaimini has decided to give up an active role in the food-ordering-and delivering-platform to pursue another entrepreneurial venture, the company said in a statement. He will move on during the month, after serving the position for six years. 

Jaimini will be taking up the position of co-founder at Pesto Tech, a career accelerator start-up whilst continuing to remain a shareholder and board member at Swiggy. 

The company also shared that the functions currently led by Jaimini, including platform engineering, analytics, IT and labs, will be handed over to the head of engineering and data science Dale Vaz. 

Swiggy co-founder and CEO Sriharsha Majety said, "Technology was crucial to what we set out to build when we started Swiggy. Nandan (Reddy) and I could not have asked for a better partner to handle this aspect of the company."

Jaimini added, “Working with technology that has large scale impact is what excites me, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to do just this at Swiggy and grow tremendously over the years.”