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Amit Choudhary, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Ecom Express

Logistics Tech Leader

A tech luminary, Amit Choudhary has been instrumental in building products and platforms across various domains from telecom-tech, travel-tech, CRM-tech, fin-tech to his current set up in logistics-tech as the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Ecom Express. Enthralled by the internet’s transformative potential, Choudhary’s journey in the technological field led him to pursue a Masters degree at the University of Pennsylvania collaborating with professors in solving complex problems and exploring the evolving field of internet.

As the CPTO, Choudhary’s prime focus is on orchestrating teams to adapt swiftly to evolving landscapes, ensuring products meet market demands at an unprecedented pace and delivering business outcomes in the most efficient and agile fashion.

Choudhary believes in establishing a culture of continuous innovation through incentivization and aligning business objectives as a shared vision among the teams. Empowerment, iteration, and early stakeholder feedback foster an environment conducive to groundbreaking solutions.

Under his leadership, at Ecom Express, both business and product teams leverage a custom built data platform to develop and validate hypothesis independently while harnessing advanced analytics for complex scenarios.

With the new advances in Gen AI, Choudhary used this opportunity to leapfrog the technology cycle and develop India’s first ever AddressGPT Large Language Model to solve the problem of address validation and correction. This transformative leap propelled operational efficiencies, setting industry benchmarks and steering the company closer to profitability. Choudhary is focused on driving InfoSec initiatives across every device, user and network endpoint by implementing and rearchitecting the Zero Network framework, shielding the ecosystem from potential breaches.

Choudhary believes that as platform builders and problem solvers, one needs to stay curious and excited at the possibilities of new technological breakthroughs and commitment to solving problems and creating values. In his words, “Everyday brings an opportunity to refine our craft, learn new skills, seek new answers and solve things better”