Patwari gets Uber Sr Engineering Leader's job

Uber has appointed Jaiteerth Patwari the Senior Engineering Leader at its engineering centre in Hyderabad. Patwari, with 22 years of experience in product development, innovation and management, will focus on developing scalable distributed real-time business platforms. In his previous role, Jaiteerth was heading the LeMall R&D division at LeEco and has also worked with chipmaker Qualcomm. The appointment comes at a time when the US-based company is facing allegations of widespread mismanagement.