Muralidhar Sortur

Muralidhar Sortur is an experienced engineering leader currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Rakuten India since July 2022, focusing on e-commerce marketplace solutions. Prior to this, Muralidhar held various positions at Rakuten, including Distinguished Architect and Senior Principal Architect, where contributions included AI solutions and ML-based architectures. Muralidhar's career includes roles at Walmart eCommerce as Sr. Staff Software Engineer, eBay as Software Engineering Manager 2 and MTS, and Yahoo as Tech Lead, with significant achievements in platform engineering and infrastructure. Early career experience includes work as a Search Engineer at Guruji.com, developing indexing infrastructure and algorithms. Muralidhar holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Automation from the Indian Institute of Science.