DIVAKAR RAYAPATY
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Divakar joined Priceline in the early stages of the company. As a leading member of the engineering team he was instrumental in building the middle tier of Priceline’s core platform. He was tasked with leading critical projects across cross functional teams to develop highly scalable solutions, build and deploy systems and solve complex application performance issues resulting in critical improvements in uptime.

He went on to become a serial entrepreneur, serving as Co-Founder at Flowhealth, Director at Mezoclick, and Co-Founder/CTO at Maker’s Brand. As a Co-Founder of a fashion startup he led a team of 30 engineers developing complex recommender systems for retailers, using advanced, emerging machine learning models. Most recently he was the CTO at MendAfter where he built a registry for cancer patients.