About

Ankit Chandra is a highly accomplished Software Development Manager at Amazon, with over 14 years of experience in the field. He currently leads a team of 15 engineers, responsible for building and owning systems for AWS supply chain management, including vendor management and shipment of network racks and other products. Ankit has owned, built, and managed several tier-1 services in supply chain management in Amazon retail, focusing on reducing costs, improving efficiency, and automation, all at Amazon's scale. This supply chain management system is one of Amazon's key moats in today's competitive e-commerce world. Ankit is an expert in building teams from scratch, working extensively to achieve business goals, and believes that people are the key asset for any company. He is currently leading Inbound Shipment and Seller Registration teams of a brand new business called Amazon Distribution and Fulfillment services, which allows sellers to move their goods in bulk from the manufacturer's location to the Distribution Center. Ankit has shipped hundreds of inbound orders and onboarded multiple hundreds of sellers, managing 15 SDEs and multiple tech leads and managers. He is responsible for building a 3YP and long-term vision and roadmap for inbound, coaching other leaders in his org to enable them to build their domain and teams independently. Ankit has a proven track record of managing operational excellence of both the teams through triages, sprint allocation, and reducing overall OE burden by 10% over a period of 6 months. He is also responsible for hiring strong tech leaders for the team and growing talent within the team. Ankit has previously worked as a Software Development Manager III at Amazon Core Transportation, where he built a product to manage a high TPS system to support customer's control on their transportation shipments while being transported through Amazon's transportation network or 3P network. He has also grown and managed a team of builders to deliver an efficient, scalable, distributed system managing Amazon's core transportation business. Ankit holds an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas and a BE degree in Computer Science from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. He is skilled in Software Engineering, AWS, and Web technologies. Ankit is an asset to any organization and can bring significant value to any team he leads.