Rajat Bansal steps down as CTO of games24x7 after four years

BENGALURU: Rajat Bansal is moving on from Games24x7, closing a four-year chapter that saw him steer one of India’s largest multi-gaming platforms, serving 100 million users and handling over five billion games annually. As CTO, he led product and platform engineering across My11Circle, RummyCircle, PokerCircle, and Wowzy, oversaw DevOps managing USD20 million of infrastructure, Infosec, IT, PMO, Data Engineering, and BI functions, and guided a 350-strong engineering team across Bengaluru and Mumbai.

Under his leadership, Games24x7 achieved 40 per cent YoY growth, delivered high-availability systems at 300k TPS with 99.9 per cent uptime, cut infrastructure costs by 67 per cent, and pioneered AI-driven solutions across product, data, and engineering operations. He also built initiatives like GameTechAccelerate and TechXpedite to establish Games24x7 as a technology leader in India’s gaming ecosystem.

Bansal brings over 25 years of global experience, having held senior technology leadership roles at Amazon, Hike Messenger, Naukri.com, Adobe, and Microsoft. His tenure included leading Amazon Hub Lockers engineering, scaling Prime Video’s global digital supply chain, building India’s largest messaging platform at Hike, and managing multi-terabyte data pipelines and distributed systems across continents.

Games24x7 marks a milestone in his career-but the horizon is calling. Rajat Bansal leaves behind a legacy of innovation, operational excellence, and high-performance engineering. Onward to new adventures.