Piyush Rajput

Co-Founder & SVP Engineering Simpplr

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Piyush Rajput is co-founder and Senior Vice President of Engineering at Simpplr. The company sells an AI-powered intranet and employee experience platform that gives staff a single place for company news, search, communications and recognition. Rajput leads the engineering organisation that builds it, working alongside founder and chief executive Dhiraj Sharma. Simpplr says it has raised more than $131 million, reports more than two million active users, and was named a Leader in both Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Intranet Packaged Solutions and The Forrester Wave for Intranet Platforms, Q2 2026. Little about his own background is published first-hand, and this profile records only what the company states.

Career Highlights

• Co-founder of Simpplr, listed on the company’s leadership team as Co-Founder & SVP Engineering.
• Leads engineering for a platform that Simpplr says has more than two million active users.
• Wrote Simpplr’s public security incident response to the Apache Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in December 2021. The post told customers that the Simpplr application did not use the vulnerable library and that no unauthorised access to customer data had been found.

Professional Journey

Rajput co-founded Simpplr with Dhiraj Sharma. Simpplr’s pitch is that scattered internal tools get in the way of the people using them, and that bringing what employees need into one platform is worth more than any single feature. Sharma runs the company as chief executive. Rajput, as SVP Engineering, runs the organisation that builds the product, which the company now markets with AI search, AI agents, communications tooling, surveys, recognition and analytics.

The clearest public record of his work is from December 2021. When the Apache Log4j vulnerability forced software vendors to check their exposure, Rajput wrote Simpplr’s customer-facing response. It said the company’s own application did not use the vulnerable Log4j library, and that some third-party sub-processors were affected but no unauthorised access to customer data had been found. It told customers no action was needed on their side.

Simpplr has raised more than $131 million from Norwest Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Tola Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Still Venture Capital. It has since been named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Intranet Packaged Solutions and in The Forrester Wave for Intranet Platforms, Q2 2026. All funding, user and ranking figures are the company’s own.

His career before Simpplr is not described on any first-party page reviewed. Third-party directories carry claims about earlier roles and his education, but they are not repeated here.

Education

No education record was found in a first-party or primary source. Third-party directories attribute a degree to him, but it could not be verified and is not recorded.