Tilak Doddapaneni has been hired into the newly created position of Global Head of Engineering at Publicis.Sapient – joining from Tesco, where he was Online Engineering Director. Doddapaneni will join the Publicis.Sapient global leadership team and report directly to Nigel Vaz, Publicis Groupe Lead for Digital Business Transformation and CEO of Publicis.Sapient EMEA and APAC. Rakesh Ravuri, who has held a succession of senior engineering roles at Amazon, will join as Chief Technology Officer for programming languages and cloud and Global Head of Engineering for Retail. He will play a key leadership role in Publicis.Sapient's extensive operations in India. Ravuri will report to Doddapaneni. Both Doddapaneni and Ravuri are Sapient alumni.