Blox has on boarded yet another impressive asset to its senior management team with the appointment of Amit Goel as Chief Technology Officer. Blox is a home buying platform, one of its kind in India, led by Founder & CEO Aditya Jhaveri.
Amit Goel holds a MS from BITS Pilani, and an impressive educational background from many other reputed institutions including IIM, Lucknow. Alongside his education, he also owns 3 patents, 2 patents pending in areas of Semantic Search and Biometric Security.
With more than a decade of experience in AI, he has worked in segments like consumer internet, payments, finance and trading which helps in holistic designing and delivering. He has architected and implemented Semantic Search (AI) based products from scratch for 3 years with semantic insights, creating NLP models for reading and writing.
He has worked for various startups and MNCs. At CA Tech, he scaled application monitoring to support billions of transactions per second; processing business data, analytics and revenue. At PayPal he contributed in developing multiple MVPs. At Roomoncall, he developed the product from scratch to handle millions of dollar GMV at scale. While at Dhani, he handled consumer finance and stocks, and revamped the customer onboarding experience on the app that reduced onboarding time from days to seconds.
His career as a programmer, to an architect to the CTO for the last 8 years, brings him strong technological hands-on experience with managerial and strategic outlook that would help the company in aligning a technological roadmap to business strategy. Having created a crypto, he also has an expert understanding of the blockchain and the crypto landscape.
At Blox, with additional responsibilities, Amit will overcome the regulatory industry with RERA and other compliances which brings its own challenges to remain compliant. As the real-estate has its reputation and trust issues, gaining customer confidence and trust to enable them to make this pricey purchase online with life savings would be a tiresome and a challenge for him. However, he looks forward to taking it up with implementing the right technologies like blockchain, AI, ML, AR/VR, IOT, drone for relevant use, cases with effective CRM, and operation efficient backend, together to bring an effective customer centric experience and support.
Commenting on the new appointment, Aditya Jhaveri – Founder & CEO said, “It is with immense pleasure that we bring on board Amit as the new Chief Technology Officer of Blox. His expertise will take care of all digital API integrations with authorities, corporations, banks for real time and up to date property history, taxation, registration and loans. The completeness and reliability of these services will be managed by Amit, to give customers a dependable and consistent experience. We are looking forward to our journey with Amit, as we work towards a bigger and better future for Blox.”
