Jul 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• At Adobe, led the GenAI strategy and execution, driving AI-first innovation across products and developer platforms to enhance creativity, automation, and extensibility.
• Led GenAI initiatives in Adobe Express, defining the strategy, architecture, and delivery of AI-powered capabilities that redefined user creativity and productivity. Delivered the Adobe Express AI Copilot, enabling intelligent design assistance and content generation, and Contextual Images, offering real-time, personalized visual recommendations.
• Designed and built an Agentic AI-based code generation solution powered by multiple AI tools for accurate and executable code generation, incorporating compiler-based correction and sandboxed execution for reliability and safety.
• Architected and delivered the Unified Extensibility Platform (UXP) for in-app extensibility across Adobe products like Photoshop and Illustrator, and led the Web Components initiative, enabling a unified, consistent UI experience across Adobe flagships.
• Contributed to Adobe’s on-cloud extensibility initiative, designing highly available and fault-tolerant systems and driving AI-first extensibility adoption for both internal and third-party developers.

Dec 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

• At Siemens EDA (formerly Mentor Graphics), led the design and development of a cycle-based simulation strategy for the Questa hardware simulator, achieving up to 100× performance improvements over traditional value-based simulation.
• Key Contributions:
• Architected and designed core components including the vector-based data model, parallel code generation engine, and high-performance cycle execution kernel.
• Applied graph-based algorithms, graph clusterization, and vector processing techniques to enable scalable, parallel simulation.
• Led a team in building the system from the ground up, driving efficient execution and validation.
• Onboarded multiple test customers, validating performance, correctness, and production readiness.

Nov 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Jan 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• At Refabd, an e-commerce startup for used appliances and furniture, served as Founder and CTO, responsible for building the product and technology stack from scratch. Led a small engineering team to architect, develop, and scale the platform end to end — from frontend to backend infrastructure — and secured seed-level funding to drive early growth.
• Key Contributions:
• Architected and developed a Single Page Application (SPA) using AngularJS, PHP, and modern web frameworks.
• Built the complete tech stack, including search engine, REST APIs, payment gateway integration, and a scalable backend.
• Drove product roadmap, technology strategy, and team execution, aligning technical delivery with business goals.
• Ensured high-quality, maintainable code through hands-on work in frontend (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and backend engineering.

Jul 2011 – Nov 2017 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• At NetApp, worked on the Disaster Recovery (DR) team, focusing on high-availability and fault-tolerant distributed systems. Contributed to the MetroCluster synchronous replication solution — a critical technology enabling zero data loss and continuous availability across geographically distributed storage systems.
• Key Contributions:
• Designed and developed components supporting synchronous configuration replication in MetroCluster environments.
• Worked on core distributed system challenges such as replicated databases, leader election, failure detection, and consistency management.
• Improved system resilience and recovery workflows, ensuring reliability across large-scale storage clusters.