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Groupon Hires Indian American as VP of Engineering

Groupon, the daily deals company based in Chicago appointed Vinayak Hedge as its new VP of engineering. He looks after the marketing technology expansion of the company, from Groupon’s office in Seattle and is also be responsible for a new office which will be set up in Seattle soon.

Hedge was in charge of payment management and various business units while he was working at Amazon, along with running Amazon’s “Traffic Systems” group.

It is not the first time Groupon is hiring Amazonians and the list of former Amazon executives on its team is increasing, which includes CFO Jason Child, SVP of Product Jeff Holden and Kal Raman, who joined as SVP of Americas.

Hedge who completed his higher studies from National Institute of Technology in Karnataka has earlier worked for Oracle, Verifone and Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd as a software engineer.