Shri.J.A.Chowdary was credited as "one of the key architects" of HITEC City and Cyberabad. J A Chowdary is the founding director of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) at Bangalore, in Hyderabad and in founding International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad at Hyderabad and IIDT at Tirupati.
He is the current chairman of the Indian BlockChain Standards Committee, the General Partner-Succeed Indovation Fund and a former IT advisor and special chief secretary to the Chief Minister, Government of Andhra Pradesh.
Chowdary is a co-founder of PortalPlayer which was acquired by Nvidia in 2007. He led the development of the chip that went into the first generation of iPods. He is also a co-founder and board member at Hyderabad Angels.
Chowdary has won the “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2021 for his stellar contribution to the Indian IT / ITeS industry from HYSEA, the "Meritorious Invention Award" from NRDC, Government of India, HMA Award of excellence "for promoting the Indian IT Industry", HYSEA Award of excellence "for promoting the IT industry in Andhra Pradesh" and Award of excellence from the Telugu Association of the state of Texas in the United States.