Vikrant Pundir

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India27 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

26 years of experience in product engineering leadership.
Expert in architecting multilayered security solutions.
Proven track record in driving revenue growth through software integrity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS security architect with extensive experience in product engineering and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Project ManagementCloud ComputingData WarehousingData AnalysisSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesBusiness IntelligenceC#.NETMicrosoft SQL ServerRequirements AnalysisSOAEnterprise SoftwareWindows AzureSoftware DesignWeb ServicesScrumDatabasesMicrosoft TechnologiesDistributed Systems

About

A visionary leader in product engineering with 26 years of experience, I have a proven ability to build and nurture high-performing development teams while effectively managing technological risks. I excel in defining ambitious goals, fostering a culture of continuous learning, and empowering teams to achieve their best work. I lead the Product Hardening and Privacy Conversion Engineering team at Adobe, where I drive the adoption of genuine Adobe products, combat the use of non-genuine software, and motivate users to embrace authentic Adobe applications. My role involves architecting and influencing cutting-edge security designs, solutions, and platforms to ensure robust protection across our products.

Experience

27 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

12 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Adobe

2 roles

Director, Engineering, Creative Cloud Products

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

As a Director of Engineering-Creative Cloud Products, at Adobe, I spearhead the product hardening and privacy conversion initiatives, driving the adoption of genuine Adobe products while safeguarding our software from unauthorized use. My leadership is central to developing and implementing advanced, multilayered security architectures that protect Adobe’s ecosystem.
Adobe Creative Cloud has been a prime target for hackers, who often tamper with application binaries, disable licensing restrictions, and compromise sensitive data. To combat these threats, my team is dedicated to detecting, preventing, and converting non-genuine software into legitimate versions through sophisticated tamper detection and conversion platforms. These initiatives strengthen product integrity and significantly boost revenue growth.

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Sr. Engineering Leader, Core Technologies & Products

Dec 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 5 mos

Leading the engineering team for product hardening and privacy conversion by promoting Genuine Adobe products, preventing non-genuine Adobe products from being used, and motivating consumers to use genuine Adobe apps. Influencing and architecting multilayered security design, solutions, and platforms to be secure.
Adobe CC products are historically hacked, cracked, and distrusted. Hackers tampered with the binaries, including altering the executable portions of the application code to change its functionality or defeat built-in safeguards and controls, such as disabling license or copyright restrictions access to sensitive data, bypassing critical sections of code, or reverse-engineering the code.
The product hardening team is primarily responsible for preventing, detecting, and converting the non-genuine software to genuine software through our tamper detection and conversion solution. Via this platform, $55M was achieved last year, and we are targeting $72M for 2021.

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Microsoft

Principal Development Manager

Jun 2005 – Dec 2013 · 8 yrs 6 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Managed Sales and Marketing IT India Engineering Team, responsible for delivering high quality enterprise Solution for internal Marketing users such as Email Marketing, World Wide Lead Management, Microsoft Reference Management, Marketing Budget Planning, and Worldwide Events Management etc.
Led ‘Awareness to Lead and ‘Lead to Order’ portfolio in MSIT India.
Responsible for the roadmap planning, Fiscal planning, Supplier Management and change management for the India plan of record.
Identify and deliver on non-delivery value-add opportunities, risk management and talent development.
Thought leadership to help set up the Azure and Big Data competency in Hyderabad India location.
Guided executive strategy on the roadmap of Mobile Applications for Microsoft Field users
Responsible for conception and execution of strategic plans, and the architecture of associated tactics including performance benchmarking against key operational targets/goals.
Defined the architecture and led the Marketing Data warehouse and aligned with the overall Enterprise Data Warehouse initiatives.
Designed and managed a cloud based solution for the backbone of Emails Marketing for Microsoft Customers.
Delivered 15 Executive Briefing Conferences to external customers & partners [CIO level] supporting Windows Azure, Cloud computing, Windows 8 and Big Data and scored avg. 8.5/9.
Invited as a speaker at 2 IITs (Kanpur, Gandhinagar) for Cloud computing/Azure

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Kpit

Sr. System Analyst

Jan 2004 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Worked on multiple projects with different business units including Manufacturing Domain.
Involved in various projects related to Data Modeling, System/Data Analysis, Design and Development for both OLTP and Data warehousing environments.
Helped lead the establishment of the IT strategic plan and technology roadmap to meet strategic business goals.
Developed multiple BI and reporting/ Dashboard applications for Cummins.
Assisted upper management with strategic planning and overall fiscal plans.

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