Company Updates
Joining Our Table: Meet Chief Technology Officer Anirban Kundu
We are thrilled to announce Anirban Kundu will be joining us as our new Chief Technology Officer!
Anirban joins us from Uber, where he was VP and Head of Engineering for Uber Delivery. At Uber, Anirban spearheaded the platform’s B2B and B2C solutions, including Uber Eats and the company’s Ad Solutions. He joined Uber from Postmates, where he was responsible for Product and Engineering. Prior to Postmates, Anirban was Chief Technology Officer at Evernote and, before that, led engineering teams at companies including GoDaddy, Shazam, and Yahoo.
At Instacart, Anirban will lead our technical team as we further expand our position as the grocery industry’s leading technology company. His deep understanding of multi-sided marketplaces like ours and proven track record of building scaled technical systems that can support long-term growth make him the perfect person to drive our technical vision forward.
Today, Instacart provides our more than 1,500 retail banners with access to a suite of technology products and services that help them compete in a rapidly evolving landscape. In addition to the Instacart marketplace, we support our retail and CPG partners both online and in stores, powering e-commerce experiences, fulfilling orders, digitizing brick-and-mortar stores, offering advertising solutions, and gleaning actionable insights.
As we continue to serve millions of customers, 600,000+ shoppers, 80,000+ stores and 6,000+ brands, we’re looking forward to having Anirban’s expertise and leadership to help us realize our long-term vision of building the technologies that will power every grocery transaction. Welcome to Instacart, Anirban!
What’s in Anirban’s cart? Brookside dark chocolate-covered pomegranate seeds!
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