?Ex-Mobikwik techie, Ankur Shrivastava joins Zappfresh

Zappfresh, an online meat brand, which claims to make fresh, hygienic meat easily accessible and affordable to consumers, has announced the appointment of Ankur Shrivastava as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Ankur was a part of the core team at Mobikwik and was responsible for setting up and developing scalable tech for the company. He started his career as Senior Software Engineer with Infosys.

Zappfresh has appointed Ankur to build India's first and only 360 degree farm tech supply chain architecture.

As per reports, the role allotted to Ankur by Zappfresh, includes inventing technology and processes for Farm-Tech which will help connect farmers, vendors and retail channels. It’ll be on him to solve the open ended challenges in Farm - Tech systems like - real time data and assets tracking, visibility and automated tagging of inventory in offline systems, reducing and optimising time-to- consumer from farm, demand forecast engine etc. These systems will help in strengthening the brand and assist in cost optimization.

Ankur said, "Technology is interesting and even more when it can help make systems and processes simpler and convenient for every user. The idea behind creating a platform for every stakeholder involved from the first stage to the last mile in meat delivery. I am excited to work on developing the technology which will help in real-time data and assets tracking for attaining transparency in the meat supply chain system."

Shruti Gochhwal, Co-founder, Zappfresh said, "Under Ankur's expertise, we aim to build India's first and only 360 degree farm to fork supply chain enabling government approved farm level procurements. With the in-house tech team, led by Ankur, we are streamlining the broken supply chain in order to give our customers, clients and channel partners, the cost-effective meat buying experience."

She further added, "We have built an ERP in-house with Artificial intelligence capabilities for smoother operations and effective control on wastages and inventory controls and with Ankur's involvement we are sure to strengthen our product design and roadmap."