Carousell continues the string of high profile hires with a new CTO

Fast-growing classifieds Carousell appointed Igor Volynskiy as CTO.

Taking over from Lucas Ngoo, Carousell’s co-founder who had been serving as CTO to date, Volynskiy will be responsible for developing Carousell’s technology capabilities, including engineering, data science, and analytics, product and design. Volynskiy will oversee all technology-related functions in Carousell and will report to co-founder and CEO, Siu Rui Quek.

Formerly, Volynskiy was Technology VP at Lazada and VP of Operations and Marketplace Technology at RedMart. He has over 20 years of experience in leading cross-functional organisations of software engineers, product managers, data scientists and industrial engineers to drive business results.

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Ngoo said, “With Igor joining us as CTO, we’re looking forward to leveraging his leadership experience within the rapidly evolving e-commerce space and extensive understanding of technology infrastructure, to build a world-class product and engineering team to accelerate our growth and monetisation efforts.”

Volynskiy’s appointment follows a string of high profile hires  Carousell made in 2019, including VP of Operations Su Lin Tan, Chief Commercial Officer Lewis Ng and Managing Director of Ads JJ Eastwood.

A part of the company’s ongoing investment in deep technology capabilities and AI, Carousell has rolled out several product updates that aim to create personalised and intuitive experiences to help users buy and sell with ease. They rolled out an object identification feature, where an image taken for a listing is automatically provided with recommendations for the object’s name, product categories, and optimal selling price.

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