MakeMyTrip

MakeMyTrip is a leading India-based online travel technology platform that enables transactions across a broad range of travel needs — flights, hotels, holiday packages, bus tickets, rail tickets, and car hire — through a digital-first, omni-channel distribution platform. It operates an asset-light marketplace model, connecting travelers with a wide network of suppliers including airlines, hotels, accommodation providers, and ground transport operators. The company began operations in 2000 focused on serving Indians in the US, then entered the Indian market with the launch of its India website in September 2005.

Headquarters: Gurugram (Gurgaon), Haryana, India

Founded: 2000, by Deep Kalra

Industry: Online Travel / Travel Technology

Ownership: Public company — listed on NASDAQ under ticker MMYT

Key People:

• Deep Kalra — Founder & Chairman
• Rajesh Magow — Co-founder & Group CEO
• Sanjay Mohan — Group CTO
• Mohit Kabra — Group COO

Brands: MakeMyTrip, Goibibo, and redBus — with a growing presence outside India in the United Arab Emirates, offering localized travel products such as air ticketing and hotels

Key Financials & Scale:

Tech Stack & Recent AI Push:

• Uses a mix of cloud (AWS, Amazon Redshift), PHP, Python, PWA, and monitoring tools like SonarQube
• Partnered with OpenAI (announced Feb 2026) to add new AI features to its “Myra” trip assistant, deepening its AI-first strategy
• Group CTO Sanjay Mohan has publicly raised a key industry question: whether global AI models can truly understand India’s linguistic and cultural complexity for travel planning — signaling continued investment in localized AI

Why It Matters for Job Seekers:
As a NASDAQ-listed company actively building AI-driven personalization (via its OpenAI partnership) atop a large-scale, multi-brand travel marketplace, MakeMyTrip offers tech candidates exposure to consumer-scale engineering, applied AI/NLP for regional languages, and full-stack travel platform development.