After Sikka, Infosys senior VP and technology head Navin Budhiraja quits

Prior to Budhiraja, Sanjay Rajagopalan, who was heading Design and Research, had resigned from the company

Navin Budhiraja, Infosys' senior vice-president and head of technology, has resigned. He is the second key executive to quit the software services major after non-founder chief executive Vishal Sikka’s resignation about a month ago.

Budhiraja, who joined Infosys in August 2014, was one amongst the few key leaders brought in by Sikka to drive technology transformation at the Bengaluru-headquartered information technology services company.

He was the key leader for driving growth of Infosys’ artificial intelligence platform Nia. “Budhiraja has put in his papers in the past week,” said sources privy to the development. Livemint first reported Budhiraja’s resignation.

Industry analysts said