Product & Technology Leader

Archit
Shrivastava

Two decades of building products that move markets.

Archit Shrivastava
AS
IIM Indore MBA CSPO Certified Amazon PXBR
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Executive Journey

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Products Used by Millions

Products Used by Millions

Archit has contributed to platforms serving millions of customers across retail, e-commerce, fintech, and digital ecosystems — including JioMart, Reliance Digital, Netmeds, Amazon Pay, Yahoo Answers, and Quikr. Across every role, his focus has remained constant: customer experience, trust, conversion, retention, and operational scale.

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Global-First & India-First Innovation

Global-First & India-First Innovation

Archit led the launch of the world's first WhatsApp Commerce platform in partnership with Meta for JioMart — a product milestone with no precedent anywhere in the world. He has also pioneered several India-first innovations that redefined expectations in their categories.

  • Cash Load at Amazon — converting cash to digital balance at the customer's doorstep
  • India's first diagnostics marketplace at Netmeds
  • Quick-commerce and hyperlocal retail models at JioMart Express
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Cross-Domain Expertise

Cross-Domain Expertise

Few product leaders operate with genuine depth across this many domains. Archit's hands-on experience spans the full breadth of India's digital economy.

E-commerce & Retail Payments & Fintech Consumer Internet Marketplaces & Classifieds Re-commerce Healthcare Commerce AI Transformation Trust, Fraud & Risk Systems
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Building High-Performance Teams

Building High-Performance Teams

Archit has built and mentored product organisations across startups and large enterprises — hiring strong talent, introducing scalable operating systems, and championing a culture of ownership, speed, and customer obsession. Most recently, he has driven AI adoption across teams to improve decision-making and execution velocity.

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Measurable Impact

Measurable Impact

Across leadership roles, Archit has consistently delivered meaningful business outcomes through product strategy, operational excellence, and customer-centric execution.

  • Improved conversion through product funnel optimisation
  • Faster delivery turnaround through quick-commerce models
  • Lower inventory holding costs through supply chain innovation
  • Increased adoption of prepaid digital payments
  • Reduced spam, fraud, and trust-related issues at scale
  • Improved app ratings and customer satisfaction scores
  • Enhanced monetisation across digital platforms
  • Stronger retention through product improvements
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Innovation & IP

Innovation & Intellectual Property

Archit is a named inventor on patent work related to quality-based scoring and moderation of user-generated content — reflecting his long-standing interest in trust systems, scaled platforms, and intelligent automation. He actively explores how AI can reshape product management, education, governance, and digital ecosystems.

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Leadership Philosophy

Leadership Philosophy

Archit believes enduring products are built at the intersection of five things — and that no amount of process compensates for a deficit in any of them.

Deep customer understanding Clear thinking Strong teams Fast execution Data discipline

What Archit brings to the boardroom

With P&L ownership, experience at global scale, and a track record of launching market-defining products, Archit offers boards a rare combination: strategic vision grounded in operational reality.

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Digital & AI Strategy

Archit advises leadership on AI integration, product roadmaps, and digital transformation at Jio / Reliance scale.

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Consumer Technology

Deep expertise in e-commerce, payments, quick commerce, and consumer internet across B2C, C2C, and D2C models.

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Risk & Compliance

Led regulatory initiatives for e-mandates, RBI audits, and ATO fraud reduction at Amazon India.

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Talent & Culture

Archit has recruited and built winning PM teams for both Indian and global markets, establishing PM frameworks at scale.

Projects built & shipped

Beyond his corporate role, Archit builds. These projects demonstrate his ability to ideate, execute, and launch across AI, mobile, web, and consumer domains.

AI Story
AIWebEdTech

AI Story

Every child gets a story that is entirely their own — their chosen characters, their defined personalities, their world, their language. Not just a listener but the centre of the story. Bedtime stories and reading time become genuinely exciting rather than repetitive.

Personalised AI-generated narratives · User defined themes · Multi-language support · Character personality builder · Canvas-rendered illustrations · Every story unique

Under the hood

AI Story

A server-side AI pipeline generates branching illustrated narratives in real time — each story is unique, rendered via Canvas API with dynamic scene composition across themes and multiple languages. No story is ever the same twice.

HTML5JavaScriptCanvas API
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KidzAI
AIWebEdTech
Featured

KidzAI

Children learn what AI actually is in a safe, controlled environment — not as a scary concept but as a tool they understand and can use. Schools and parents get an age-safe, curriculum-aligned platform that builds genuine AI literacy before it becomes a life skill gap.

AI literacy curriculum for kids · Interactive mini-games · AI Buddy companion · Badge & reward progression · Cross-device continuity · Parent and educator safe

Under the hood

KidzAI

Built on Next.js with React Server Components and streaming SSR — the app delivers AI-generated lesson content with sub-second load times. A badge and progression system persisted server-side enables cross-device continuity without a native app.

Next.js 15TypeScriptReact 19Tailwind
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TheFinWay
WebFintech
Featured

TheFinWay

End-to-end financial planning in one place. Users see exactly when they can stop working — with projections that account for inflation, returns, and spending — without linking any bank account or brokerage. No third-party data sharing. Just start planning.

Net worth dashboard · Portfolio tracking · Monthly expense tracker & bill reminders · Automatic FIRE detection · Future projections · Inflation-adjusted forecasts · Zero bank or brokerage linkage required

Under the hood

TheFinWay

A full-stack financial modelling engine backed by PostgreSQL and Drizzle ORM. Net worth is aggregated across multiple asset classes in a single query layer, and a Monte Carlo-style projection model runs server-side to deliver long-range forecasts — without exposing raw data to the client.

Next.js 15PostgreSQLDrizzle ORM
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Mindspark Kids
MobileEdTech

Mindspark Kids

A fun learning platform that never stops because of patchy or no internet. 20+ curriculum-aligned games across all subjects work seamlessly on any device, anywhere — making quality early education fun and interesting.

Offline-first — works without internet · 20+ educational games · Progress sync across devices · Multiple difficulty levels · Gamified journey · Progressive level unlocks

Under the hood

Mindspark Kids

A React Native app with an offline-first architecture — all content, Lottie animations, and game logic are bundled locally. Firebase handles only authentication and progress sync, keeping the experience fully functional even with no connectivity.

React NativeExpoFirebase
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Party Games
MobileLive on Stores

Party Games

No sign-ups, no accounts, no friction — and no need for everyone to download the same app. One app, multiplayer by design. Charades, Truth or Dare, and partner card decks that work equally well at a house party or a family gathering.

Multiplayer without everyone installing the app · Charades · Truth or Dare · Two Truths & a Lie · Partner compatibility decks · Android

Under the hood

Party Games

A stateless multiplayer architecture built on React Native — all game state is managed client-side via shared room codes, with Firebase Realtime Database as the sync layer. No backend compute required; the app scales to any number of concurrent rooms at zero marginal cost.

React NativeExpoFirebase
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Birds of India
MobileAI

Birds of India

Identify any Indian bird instantly with your camera, log it with precise GPS coordinates, and contribute to a growing citizen science database — all without needing mobile signal in the field.

Comprehensive Indian bird catalog · Camera-based identification · GPS-tagged sighting tracker · Offline-capable · Citizen science contribution · Migration & sighting logs

Under the hood

Birds of India

A React Native app built around a curated database of Indian bird species, integrated with the device camera for visual identification and native GPS for precise location tagging. Sighting records are stored and synced via Supabase, with the core species catalog available offline so the app functions fully in remote environments without a data connection.

React NativeSupabaseExpo
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Science Behind Traditions
AIWeb

Science Behind Traditions

Discover the real science — Ayurvedic, astronomical, or biological — behind rituals and customs practised for generations. Understand Vedas and the relevance of their learnings in current contexts. A new article, every day, automatically.

Daily auto-published articles · OpenAI-generated content · DALL-E custom imagery · Covers Ayurveda, astronomy & biology · WordPress-integrated · Zero manual effort post-setup

Under the hood

Science Behind Traditions

A fully automated publishing pipeline: a Python scheduler triggers an OpenAI completion for article copy, a DALL-E call for a matching image, and a WordPress REST API call to publish — all within a single orchestrated job. Zero human intervention from prompt to live post.

PythonOpenAIDALL-EWordPress API
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Awards & Honours

GSF Mobile Appie Award 2015
2015

GSF Mobile Appie Award

GSF Accelerator · India

Most Innovative App — awarded for the Quikr Android app, recognised for product innovation across India's mobile ecosystem.

Yahoo U Rock Award 2013
2013

Yahoo! "U Rock" Award

Yahoo! Inc.

Internal recognition for exceptional product impact, awarded for delivering significant engagement improvements on Yahoo! Answers.

Quikr Hackathon People's Choice Award
2015

Quikr Hackathon — People's Choice Award

Quikr · India

People's Choice Award at the Quikr internal Hackathon — recognised for the most popular idea and execution among all competing teams.

Amazon Pay Day 1 Get Fit Award
2019

Amazon Pay — Day 1 Award

Amazon Pay India · VP Recognition

Presented by the Vice President of Amazon Pay India for outstanding contribution in reducing Account Takeover (ATO) fraud by 90%.

2017–21
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Payments Experience Bar Raiser

Amazon Inc. — Global

Selected as 1 of 16 PXBRs worldwide and only the 2nd in India — responsible for setting and upholding the payments product quality bar globally.

Education & Certifications

Formal Education

2010–12

Post Graduate Programme in Management

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore

MBA
2002–06

B.E. (Hons.) — Electronics & Communication

RGPV, Bhopal · Branch Topper · 81.9%

B.E.

Certifications & Courses

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Scrum Alliance · 2013

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

Microsoft · 2008

Gamification

University of Pennsylvania (Online) · 2013

Build something significant

Independent Director positions, Strategic Advisory roles, and meaningful collaborations at the intersection of technology and business.