Srinivas Reddy, Managing Director at EPAM India
US-based digital transformation services and product engineering company EPAM will recruit a third of its future engineering hires from Tamil Nadu.
Speaking to businesslineon Tuesday, Srinivas Reddy, Managing director EPAM India, said that the company is banking heavily on the State’s local engineering talent and a majority of the new hiring is earmarked for its recently opened centre in Coimbatore.
The office in Coimbatore currently employs around 250 people. Apart from Coimbatore, EPAM India operates offices in six cities, including Chennai, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, and Gurgaon, with a combined workforce of about 10,000 employees.
As for the new India-US trade deal, he said it is a positive for services as a whole. EPAM’s business has been fairly insulated from geopolitics, and it expects to continue growing at a healthy pace, he added.
Reddy suggests that, beyond cost-effective talent, the presence of a considerable number of Global Capability Centres, which account for 50 per cent of EPAM’s India clientele, made Coimbatore a natural choice for expanding operations after covering the other major tech cities in India.
The company’s India business has grown by 20 per cent over the last 3-4 years, and Reddy expects similar growth in 2026. Regarding its roadmap for 2026, while Reddy did not rule out expanding into a few other cities with engineering talent and a GCC presence, he emphasised that the company’s priority this year will be to consolidate its workforce in existing locations and make them AI-native to offer better value to clients.
Published on February 3, 2026
