Praveen Gupta

Director of Engineering

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India21 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Founded and scaled Acrobat Studio from 0 to 1.
Achieved 10X growth in cloud collaboration MAUs.
Built high-performing teams with record employee engagement.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with a strong focus on AI-driven product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product InnovationEngineering Leadership

Other Skills

Large Language Models (LLM)Performance MeasurementKey Performance IndicatorsTechnical DesignFramework DesignVisionary LeadershipOperational ExcellenceGenerative AIPerformance ImprovementTeam CultureDistributed SystemsCross-functional Team LeadershipWeb ServicesStrategyMicrosoft Azure

About

Fearless Engineering Leader with 21+ years of experience driving AI-first, cloud-native innovation and scaling global organizations. At Adobe, I founded and scaled Acrobat Studio (0→1) and led Acrobat PDF Spaces. I bring a unique blend of bold vision and disciplined execution — from delivering 10+X MAU growth and leading multi-geo cloud migrations with enterprise-grade resilience, to building high-trust, high-performing teams of Managers & engineers across geographies. Passionate about operating at the intersection of people, product, and technology, I thrive on turning ambiguity into clarity, scaling inclusive engineering cultures, and delivering platforms that shape how millions of people create and collaborate. I bring a calm, collaborative, Trust-First leadership style grounded in clarity, and execution excellence — enabling teams to deliver innovation that lasts.

Experience

21 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

7 yrs

Current Experience

Adobe

Senior Engineering Manager II

Jun 2019 – Present · 7 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

As Senior Engineering Manager 2, I lead the engineering organization behind Adobe Acrobat Studio, PDF Spaces & Collaboration, delivering the most transformative innovations in document collaboration.
Product Innovation & Impact: Founded and scaled Acrobat Studio (0→1) and drove the launch of Acrobat PDF Spaces & AI Assistant - recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024.
Business Growth: Scaled cloud collaboration MAUs 10X in 2024–25, significantly expanding adoption and engagement.
Org Leadership: Built and led a 30+ engineer org (including senior managers), achieving record-high employee engagement (83) and attrition 3x lower than industry benchmark.
Cloud Transformation: Led multi-geo cloud migration, ensuring enterprise-grade resilience (RTO 1 hr / RPO 5 min) and global availability.
At Adobe, my focus has been on driving category-defining AI-first platforms while building scalable teams, resilient systems, and measurable business impact.

Large Language Models (LLM)Performance MeasurementKey Performance IndicatorsTechnical DesignFramework DesignVisionary Leadership+13

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

Led engineering for Azure Site Recovery, delivering near real-time disaster recovery (1s RPO) for enterprise customers. Drove business continuity and resilience strategy for Office 365 systems, ensuring global availability and enterprise-grade reliability at scale.

Key Performance IndicatorsOperational ExcellenceEngineering Leadership

Pitney bowes

Technical Manager

Jan 2014 – Nov 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos · India · On-site

At Pitney Bowes, I led and mentored a 20+ member engineering team, driving innovation in GIS with a focus on raster data and geospatial solutions in MapInfo. I architected the high-performance MRR raster format, enabling multi-terabyte data handling with ultra-fast performance, and represented the company globally through talks and papers on Location Intelligence.

Offshore EngineeringPerformance MeasurementKey Performance IndicatorsTechnical DesignOperational ExcellenceEngineering Leadership+3

Ryussi technologies (p) ltd.

Principal Engineer / Technical Manager

Mar 2013 – Jan 2014 · 10 mos · India · On-site

Hired and technically managed different project team of 20+
Product Development & Innovation in Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Machine Replication and de-duplication technologies.

Offshore EngineeringPerformance MeasurementKey Performance IndicatorsTechnical DesignAnalytical SkillsOperational Excellence+8

Symantec

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2007 – Mar 2013 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

Was part of Veritas - netbackup group.
Part of top talent team @ Symantec since inception.
Received Two “Standing Ovation” awards in 2010 & 2011.
Led backup recovery, replication, snapshot, vm backup, dedupe technologies.

Technical Design

Ptc

Engineer II

Feb 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune

Designed and implemented corner machining tool path generation in Pro/E WildFire 4.0.
Resolved customer’s top priority bugs and enhancement requests.
Revamped project for Constant Step depth for Area Turning NC sequence.

Technical Design