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When the Covid-19 pandemic affected Amazon’s operations in 2020 Udit Madan was given a critical job to get hundreds of thousands of masks from other countries for Amazon warehouse workers and also conduct the employee vaccine program. Madan was just in his 30s and working as vice president in Amazon. He was one of the youngest working on the position in the company at that time. He didn’t have experience of performing the task given to him especially during critical times like Covid-19 pandemic.  But Madan was a fast learner. He figured it out and performed the task given to him very well. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy promoted the 38-year-old Madan recently to senior vice president at the company. He is working as Amazon’s chief supply chain officer and handling a global employee base north of 1 million warehouse and logistics employees. Recently after once again proved himself after Donald Trump’s tariff chaos which affected Amazon’s movement of goods across the globe. He also oversees tens of thousands of trucks 100 cargo airplanes and 2000-plus warehouses in more than 24 countries.  But in an interview with Fortune Madan said that he and his teams are trained for this tasks and also had experience operating the company’s warehouse and transportation during Covid-19 pandemic. “The last five years as a team helped us build a lot of resilience in how we operate and also prompted us to invest in building more flexibility in our logistics network to handle a bit more inherent variability that we’re seeing happen quite frequently’’ Madan told Fortune in an interview. Who Is Udit Madan? Madan grew up in Hyderabad. He did schooling in New Delhi and then moved to the US to attend the University of Texas at Austin. He was considering becoming a doctor and also an investment banker.But took a degree in computer science and economics and joined Amazon as a software engineer in 2008.