As Flipkart rebuilds a new technology team, old timers are leaving the company. Flipkart’s Chief Technology Officer Amod Malviya has moved to an advisory role while Sameer Nigam, who headed engineering for the company has quit.



In an e-mail to employees on Thursday, Mukesh Bansal said that Amod Malvya, Chief Technology Officer at Flipkart and Sameer Nigam, Senior Vice President of Engineering are leaving the company.



Amod Malviya is moving to an advisory role at Flipkart, Bansal wrote. Sameer is moving from Flipkart to start an entrepreneurial venture in the technology space, the e-mail said.



Flipkart has also constituted an advisory board of the commerce platform at Flipkart and Malviya will join that board along with Sudhir Sitapati of Unilever who was recently appointed to the advisory.





“The advisory board has been created to help manage the direct fast paced growth at Flipkart with deep domain expertise in different areas,” he said.Nigam joined Flipkart in 2011 after the company acquired Mime360, a digital distribution platform he founded. Until recently, he reported to Malviya at Flipkart. A Flipkart spokesperson could not be reached at the time of publishing.In November last year, Flipkart had shuffled its top deck-- handing over the responsibilities of running the e-commerce business to Mukesh Bansal. Co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal moved on to focus on different areas of the business. Sachin Bansal was to focus on building new businesses like advertising and Binny Bansal is now focussing on supply chain.Following the reshuffle, the company brought in Punit Soni , former VP of Product Management at Motorola as Chief Product Officer for e-commerce and former Google engineering Director Peeyush Ranjan as SVP/Head of Engineering at Flipkart . Both Soni and Ranjan are building their own teams.Meanwhile, Amod Malviya was tasked with managing the company’s internal infrastructure. “More people from the old technology team are expected to leave the company,” said a mid-level Flipkart employee who requested anonymity.Some of them have already left to join other companies. For instance, Kaushik Mukherjee, who was senior engineering manager at Flipkart joined Ola Cabs as Senior Director of Engineering in April.As the new breed of Indian technology companies grow, they have been luring global talent to beef up their technology prowess and increase management depth. They have also been strengthening their boards with high-profile appointments. "It's almost like managing an orchard versus managing a nursery," said serial entrepreneur K Ganesh."As companies grow from a startup phase to growth phase, and then corporate phase, the skills required at the CXO levels varies widely. So, it is natural to expect transitions," he said.