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Crunchyroll names Priyanka Peeramsetty director of engineering ops
Hyderabad: Crunchyroll has appointed Priyanka Peeramsetty as director of engineering operations, tasking her with bringing order, pace and clarity to the anime streaming giant’s global engineering engine.
In her new role, Peeramsetty will work closely with engineering leaders in the United States and technical programme management teams worldwide to align processes, turn strategy into action and keep execution running smoothly. A key part of her mandate is to drive the engineering operating rhythm in India, overseeing planning cycles, performance metrics, business reviews and cross border collaboration.
Put simply, she is there to make sure the moving parts move together.
Peeramsetty brings a career shaped by operational rigour and people centric leadership. Before joining Crunchyroll, she was associate director of customer excellence at Keka HR, where she oversaw critical touchpoints across the customer lifecycle for more than 8,000 clients, spanning onboarding, support, account management and governance.
Her earlier roles include stints in the CEO’s office at inFeedo, chief of staff at Peppo, which was later acquired by BookMyShow, and community lead at WeWork during its India expansion. Across these roles, she has worked at the intersection of strategy, execution and culture, often acting as the glue between leadership vision and on the ground delivery.
Peeramsetty also took a deliberate career break in 2023, using the time to travel, focus on fitness, mentor young professionals and write about work, inclusion and technology. She has described it as one of the best decisions of her life.
Announcing the move on LinkedIn with her trademark candour, she joked about the platform’s “main character energy” while sharing her excitement about the role, adding that she simply loved the banner enough to post it.
With Crunchyroll continuing to scale its global engineering footprint, Peeramsetty’s appointment signals a focus on operational discipline with a human touch, ensuring that behind the binge worthy anime is a well choreographed engineering team.
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Reserve Bank of India cancels Paytm Payments Bank licence
Central bank cites compliance failures; curbs tighten as wind-up looms
MUMBAI: India’s banking watchdog delivered its sharpest blow yet to Paytm Payments Bank, cancelling its licence and effectively ending its ability to operate as a bank under the law.
The Reserve Bank of India said the entity can no longer conduct banking business under the Banking Regulation Act, citing concerns that its affairs were not being run in the interest of depositors or the public and that it had failed to meet licence conditions.
The move escalates a crackdown that has been building for months. The bank had already been barred from onboarding new customers since March 11, 2022, and later faced restrictions on deposits, credit and wallet top-ups. In January 2024, the central bank ordered it to stop accepting fresh deposits, pointing to persistent non-compliance, including lapses in customer due diligence, use of funds and technology systems.
Operationally, the bank is now on a tight leash. It may process withdrawals of existing deposits and facilitate loan referrals through banking correspondents, but it cannot take fresh deposits.
The central bank said it would apply to the high court to wind up the bank.
Paytm sought to ringfence the fallout. In a regulatory filing, it said the licence cancellation applies to Paytm Payments Bank Limited, a separate entity, and should not be attributed to One 97 Communications. It added that there is no exposure or material business arrangement with the bank and that it operates independently, without Paytm’s board or management involvement.
“As informed earlier, Paytm (One 97 Communications Limited) and its services, which have been operating without interruption, will continue to operate uninterrupted. These include the Paytm app, Paytm UPI, Paytm Gold and all other services offered by its subsidiaries and associated companies,” the company said.
The distinction may reassure users of the app ecosystem, but the regulator’s verdict is unequivocal. After years of warnings, caps and curbs, the payments bank experiment at Paytm is being shut down—decisively, and with little room left to manoeuvre.
