Ashish Anand — VP of Engineering

I am a senior engineering leader with over 20 years of experience leading global, high-performing teams to deliver cutting-edge AI-driven products across desktop, mobile and web. Currently spearheading Adobe Photoshop’s Generative AI and AI Agent initiatives, I bring a rare blend of deep technical acumen, 0→1 product execution, and innovation at scale. My work spans Visual Foundation Models (VFMs), LLM integration, and PLG-driven development strategies, delivering market-differentiating experiences and transforming creative workflows globally. With a proven track record of building award-winning products (Adobe Fresco, Adobe Sketch), securing patents in AI/UX, and developing cross-platform AI capabilities, I am passionate about leading teams that shape the future of human-AI collaboration. *Leadership Excellence - Successfully built and led multiple teams from the ground up, delivering a range of products across various categories, including desktop products, mobile products, web services, and web applications. - Driving Photoshop Generative AI and AI Agent charter - Navigated the complexities of multiple end-to-end 1.0 product releases - Spearheaded the product and technologies learning charter for the entire digital imaging India team. *Innovation excellence: 3 US Patents - Losslessly exchanging image layer data between image editing applications US 11,087,515 - Automatically categorising and validating user-interface design components using a design-component neural network: US Patent No. 10,732,942 - Drawing Tool Identification and Retrieval: US 16/822,826 - Multiple research and product ideas to production releases * Execution excellence - Successfully delivering critical components and features in Adobe Photoshop - Gen AI capabilities in Photoshop: Generate Image, Generate Background and more.. - AI Agents in Photoshop: Actions Agent and Creative Assistant - Built and released three 1.0 products successfully - Adobe Fresco on iOS and Windows. Adobe Fresco was awarded as “100 greatest innovations of 2019” by Popular Science and one of the best apps in 2019 by Fast Company - Adobe Sketch was the winner of the 2017 Best Google Play apps and was part of the Editors' Choice - Led and delivered "work anywhere (Recent files everywhere, Preferences sync)" charter of Acrobat - Built cloud-based (AWS) speech-to-text service for Adobe Video creator

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in AI-driven product development.

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Experience: 19 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Generative Ai
Artificial Intelligence (ai)
Cloud Computing

Career Highlights

Led Adobe Photoshop's Generative AI initiatives.
Built award-winning products like Adobe Fresco and Adobe Sketch.
Secured 3 US patents in AI/UX.

Work Experience

Adobe

Senior Engineering Manager II : Adobe Photoshop (2 yrs 9 mos)

Senior Engineering Manager : Adobe Photoshop (2 yrs 4 mos)

Engineering Manager III - Adobe Fresco on iOS/Windows & AI/ML innovation in Drawing & Painting (1 yr 3 mos)

Engineering Manager II - Adobe Fresco on iOS/Windows, Adobe Photoshop Sketch on Android (2 yrs 5 mos)

Computer Scientist -2 (11 mos)

Computer Scientist -2 (1 yr 7 mos)

Computer Scientist (1 yr 10 mos)

MTS2 (1 yr 3 mos)

Decorwalk.com

Co-Founder (1 yr 6 mos)

Dassault Systemes

senior software engineer (4 yrs 11 mos)

Education

B.Tech. at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

AI for Business at Wharton Online

Foundations Of Leadership Program - Corporate Learning at Harvard Business Publishing (subsidiary of Harvard University)

Professional Certificate at HarvardX

Ashish Anand

VP of Engineering

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India19 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led Adobe Photoshop's Generative AI initiatives.
Built award-winning products like Adobe Fresco and Adobe Sketch.
Secured 3 US patents in AI/UX.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in AI-driven product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative AiArtificial Intelligence (ai)Cloud Computing

Other Skills

0->1 product developmentAI AgentsAI StrategyAWSAdobe PhotoshopAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon EBSAmazon EC2Amazon RDSAmazon S3Amazon SQSAmazon SimpleDB (SDB)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Business Strategy

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Experience

Adobe

8 roles

Senior Engineering Manager II : Adobe Photoshop

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Leading end-to-end delivery of Generative AI (Visual Foundation Models & LLMs) and AI Agent-powered features for Adobe Photoshop, impacting millions of users.
Orchestrated architecture modernisation to support real-time AI-powered creative tools and intelligent assistants.
Championed product-led growth (PLG) strategies to expand adoption among new creator segments.
Built and scaled cross-functional teams and drove collaboration across geos for developing capabilities impacting millions of users.

Generative AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)LeadershipAI AgentsAI StrategyMachine Learning+10

Senior Engineering Manager : Adobe Photoshop

Promoted

Feb 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

GenTech and LLM-powered innovative capabilities
Photoshop Dekstop AI/ML features to power creative professionals and new users
PLG driven product development
Photoshop Architecture enhancements

Engineering Manager III - Adobe Fresco on iOS/Windows & AI/ML innovation in Drawing & Painting

Jan 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

Leading Creative Cloud Mobile Ecosystem team for delivering the best in class mobile applications on Android , iOS and Windows10. Responsible for delivering best quality apps, expand and grow team for newer domains.
Managing product with different stakeholders across the globe
Leading team members for their professional development
Innovating and expanding in new domains

Engineering Manager II - Adobe Fresco on iOS/Windows, Adobe Photoshop Sketch on Android

Aug 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Computer Scientist -2

Sep 2015 – Aug 2016 · 11 mos

Working as part of Creative Cloud Mobile Ecosystem we are delivering the Best in Class Photoshop Mobile applications across Android, iOS, Windows. We are providing the best photoshop experience on mobile for creatives.
Leading team to deliver Photoshop mobile applications on Android to provide best user experience
Design and Architect the application
Mentoring colleagues to help them grow professionally
Continuously innovating and researching the best feature/technology for Mobile Applications
Development platforms, technologies: Mobile (iOS, Android), desktop (Windows, MacOS), C/C++, Java,OpenGL, REST APIs, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL and NoSQL databases

Computer Scientist -2

Feb 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

Working as part of Acrobat team, responsible for delivering the best document cloud solutions so that user is able to work on all devices seamlessly from any where.
Roles & Responsibilities:-
 Architect & design cloud solutions to enable users to work anywhere on all devices seamlessly
 Working with product management team to design new features
 Mentor & lead team members to help them grow technically & professionally
 Doing research and design new features to enhance the user experience
 Develop and deliver presentations to gather feedbacks from various channels.
 Working with customers to get feedback & to resolve their concerns
Major Projects:
Architected, designed “Recent Files Everywhere” and “Preferences Sync” through Acrobat.com cloud to enable user to work anywhere on any device seamlessly.
Lead the team for “Speech to Text” on Amazon Cloud for Adobe Video Creator to generate subtitles using Amazon S3, SQS, EC2, DynamoDB.
Leading project of MS Office to Integrate with Acrobat.com Cloud
iPad app for Adobe Presenter to run swf on iPad.

Computer Scientist

Promoted

Mar 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

Roles & Responsibilities:-
 Architect, Design & lead the major features in product.
 Doing research and design new features to enhance the user experience
 Exploring new potential areas for expanding in eLearning, mLearning.
 Working with Evangelist and product management team to understand the requirements of customers and develop new state of art features.
 Working with customers to get their continuous feedback and showcase them product features.
 Learning new technologies, Mentoring team members, sharing knowledge with team members and across teams.

MTS2

Dec 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

Decorwalk.com

Co-Founder

Nov 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida

Decorwalk.com is an E-Commerce website for vintage style home decor products. This website aims to provide the high quality, unique, vintage style home decor products from all over the india at best price.

Dassault systemes

senior software engineer

Jan 2006 – Dec 2010 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Responsible for understanding the customer Requirements,doing market research for the latest technology and developing the Mill-Turn Solution for the world's largest PLM company..