Razorpay appoints ex-Google executive Prabhu Rambadran as SVP of Engineering

Digital payments major Razorpay has appointed Prabhu Rambadran as its Senior Vice President of Engineering, further bolstering its leadership team as it expands its focus on AI-powered financial technology.

Rambadran joins Razorpay from Google, where he served as a Director of Engineering within Google Cloud, leading initiatives across infrastructure and enterprise platforms. He brings over 18 years of global engineering experience, having also held senior roles at Nutanix and Microsoft in India and the United States.

At Razorpay, Rambadran will oversee the company’s engineering organization spanning risk and intelligence, business banking, payments, customer engagement, and core infrastructure. His mandate includes accelerating product innovation and enhancing the company’s AI-first technology stack as Razorpay scales its platforms for the next decade of digital payments and banking.

“His leadership will strengthen our tech foundation as we build AI-first platforms for the next decade of digital payments and banking,” said Shashank Kumar, Co-founder and Managing Director of Razorpay.

“What excites me most about Razorpay is its culture of relentless innovation, the drive to solve complex problems, and the opportunity to make an impact at scale. I’m thrilled to be part of this incredible team as we build secure, intelligent, and future-ready systems that shape the next wave of fintech transformation across India and Southeast Asia,” said Rambadran.

Founded in 2014 by Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur, Razorpay has evolved into one of India’s leading fintech companies. It is backed by investors including Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India & SEA), Tiger Global, Lightspeed, and GIC. The company has raised roughly $800 million to date.

In April 2025, Razorpay converted into a public limited company, marking a key step in its reverse-flip process to India, which was formally completed after receiving MCA approval in May 2025.

For the financial year ended March 2025 (FY25), Razorpay reported consolidated revenue of Rs 3,783 crore, up 65% year-on-year from Rs 2,296 crore in FY24.