About

Ajay Gondhiya is a seasoned engineering leader with over 26 years of relevant experience in the technology industry. He currently works as the Senior Director of Engineering at Flipkart, where he leads the Assets and Logistics Insights engineering charter to build platform capabilities and services to fuel various growth initiatives at Flipkart and drive long term innovation for e-commerce supply chain. Throughout his career, Ajay has launched and scaled-up fulfillment center capabilities to enable Flipkart foray into Groceries, Furniture, and Hyper-Local. He has also introduced India’s first robot-based sortation technology in Flipkart sortation center and experimented and adopted automation technologies for future scale and operational cost benefits in critical assets such as fulfillment centers and sortation centers. Ajay's expertise lies in driving Logistics Insights platform to provide near-real-time, 360-degree view of supply chain to business stakeholders for operations and exception management. He has also implemented innovative data science solutions for various optimization/prediction problems in the supply chain, such as vehicle routing, inventory placement, capacity management, and geo-coding techniques. Before joining Flipkart, Ajay worked as the Director of Engineering at Flipkart, where he launched mobile-enabled seller pick-up services on a new platform and transformed first-mile operations with increased productivity, reduced seller breach, and improved cost efficiency. He also re-architected sortation systems and rolled out pan-India to enable operational agility, high reliability, and scale. Prior to Flipkart, Ajay worked as the VP of Engineering at Taxiforsure/Ola, where he developed a technology platform to connect passengers with transport service providers for the best riding experience. Ajay holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from L.D College of Engineering in Ahmedabad. He is skilled in Senior Software Engineering, Data Science, Integration, and Mobile technologies.