Razorpay ropes in Prabu Rambadran from Google Cloud as Senior VP of Engineering
10 Nov 2025, 03:52 PMRambadran held leadership roles at Nutanix and Microsoft across the US and India.
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Indian fintech company Razorpay said it has appointed Prabu Rambadran as its Senior Vice President of Engineering.
In his new role, Rambadran will lead the company's engineering efforts across risk and intelligence, business banking, payments, customer engagement and core infrastructure, said Razorpay in a statement.
Prior to joining Razorpay, Rambadran was at Google Cloud where he spearheaded the development of infrastructure in Cloud Security and Google's API management solutions, and several enterprise software products.
Earlier, he also held leadership roles at Nutanix and Microsoft across the US and India. Overall, Rambadran brings over 20 years of experience in building and scaling engineering teams and enterprise-grade systems to his new role.
"Excited to welcome Prabhu as we go deeper on AI-driven products and global expansion," said Shashank Kumar, MD & co-founder, Razorpay.
Last month, Razorpay and the National Payments Corp of India (NPCI) partnered with OpenAI to launch agentic payments on ChatGPT and explore AI-driven commerce in India.
In September, The Head and Tale reported that Razorpay's offline payments head Kunal Gothivarekar is moving out.
Razorpay, which was established in 2014 by IIT Roorkee alumni Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur, is one of the heavily venture capital funded startups in India. Razorpay has secured $741.5 million in funding from Series A through F rounds. The company's investors includes Lightspeed, Lone Pine Capital, Alkeon Capital, TCV, GIC, Tiger Global, Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India), Ribbit Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Y Combinator, and MasterCard.
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