Amit Aggarwal — Director of Engineering
I am an engineering leader with ~20 years of experience building scaling systems, cloud-native platforms, and applied AI solutions across storage, telecom, and creative technology domains.Currently, I lead a 18+ member engineering organization (with Engineering Managers) within the AI/ML Foundation group at Adobe. My team drives applied AI and cloud platform initiatives powering Adobe Express.Most recently, I led engineering for Express AI Assistant (Beta) — a production-grade, cloud-native AI service integrating server-side ML models into scalable product workflows. This initiative required cross-geo coordination, executive alignment, and disciplined execution aligned with major product milestones.Prior to this, I built and scaled the Video Export & Rendition platform for Adobe Express — a distributed, server-side video processing architecture designed for extensibility and reuse across multiple product surfaces.Earlier at Adobe, I led the XD Cloud Document foundation, architecting the distributed backend infrastructure enabling document creation, persistence (CRUD), and real-time collaboration at scale. I also led the Wayfinding initiative within XD’s co-editing stack — advancing collaborative presence and coordination mechanisms in multi-user environments. This work resulted in patented innovations, including:• Reducing Network Bandwidth for Remote Content Display – US 20230127334 A1• Collaborative multi-user coordination and presence systems (Adobe)Prior to Adobe, I spent five years at NetApp working on distributed storage systems within the CIFS protocol division. My work focused on secure data access, clustered storage architectures, and efficient version management in large-scale environments. My innovations during this period resulted in multiple patents, including:• Secure access-based enumeration of a junction or mount point on a clustered server – US 9,152,776 B2• Methods for managing a request to list previous versions of an object and devices thereof – US 20160012070 A1• Storage-level access control mechanisms for data grouping structuresEarlier in my career, I worked at Nokia and Motorola, contributing to large-scale telecom and networking systems and strengthening my foundation in system design and distributed architectures.Across my journey, I have consistently operated at the intersection of deep technical systems thinking, platform architecture, applied AI integration, and multi-layer engineering leadership — evolving from distributed systems engineer to leading organizations delivering scalable AI-powered cloud platforms.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with expertise in AI and cloud-native systems.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 19 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Cloud Computing
- Ai/ml Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- Backend Development
- Collaboration Technologies
- Software Engineering
- Web Development
- Storage Systems
- Networking
- Mobile Development
- Software Development
Career Highlights
- Led engineering for Adobe's AI-powered cloud platform.
- Developed patented innovations in collaborative editing.
- Built scalable video processing architecture for Adobe Express.
Work Experience
Adobe
Senior Engineering Manager (3 yrs 1 mo)
Engineering Manager (1 yr 10 mos)
Senior Computer Scientist (1 yr 3 mos)
Computer Scientist 2 (3 yrs 7 mos)
NetApp
Member Technical Staff (4 yrs 7 mos)
Nokia India pvt ltd
Senior Software Developer (2 yrs 1 mo)
Motorola India Pvt. Ltd
Software Engineer (2 yrs 11 mos)
Education
M.E. at Delhi College of Engineering
B.Tech at GLA Institue and Technology (U.P.T.U.)
12th at J. V. Inter College
