Amit Kumar Padhy
Lead Architect/Senior Computer Scientist 2
Sunnyvale,CA
Summary
A Software Professional with 18 years of experience in Software Architecture, Design and Development. Currently associated with Adobe, Bangalore as a Senior Computer Scientist. I hold a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University College of Engineering, Burla (Now known as the VSSUT university).
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
2007
2007
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead Architect & Senior Computer Scientist 2
Adobe Systems India Private Limited
7 2022 - Current
- Leading multiple global initiatives across Adobe’s Pricing Hub and Runtime Pricing Service (RPS), architecting and building these services from the ground up. Today, they process billions of pricing requests per year with 99.99% uptime, ensuring compliance with revenue recognition standards (ASC 606).
- Architecting mission-critical commerce systems spanning pricing, payments, ordering, catalog, and billing workflows, powering transactions for millions of Adobe customers worldwide and directly impacting multi-billion-dollar revenue streams.
- Pioneering smart failover strategies, including Observability, Recovery routines in multi-cloud and multi-region architecture, enabling quick-healing, resilience, and 40% faster recovery from failures, reducing downtime risk across Adobe’s global commerce ecosystem.
- Driving technology innovation by leading Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) and evaluating tech stacks (Kafka, Kubernetes, DynamoDB, AI-based orchestration). Established architectural standards adopted across 5+ teams, improving scalability and consistency company-wide.
- Cross-functional leader, translating complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Influenced enterprise-wide pricing transformation, accelerating product launches by 20–30% through automation and streamlined processes.
- Mentoring and coaching engineers, conducting code reviews, and defining engineering best practices. Increased team productivity by 35% while raising code quality and reducing defect rates by >25%.
- Strategic design influencer and active participant in Adobe’s technical governance forums, shaping cloud optimization policies and architecture standards for commerce platforms used by global customers.
- Key contributor to Adobe’s cloud-native migration, transforming legacy monoliths into microservices and event-driven architectures. Reduced deployment times from weeks to hours, while enabling elastic scaling to 45,000+ requests per second in Pricing Runtime.
- Champion of fault tolerance and chaos engineering practices, designing high-availability, low-latency microservices that achieve sub-50ms response times globally and guarantee continuous commerce uptime despite regional failures.
Senior Architect & Senior Computer Scientist
Adobe Systems India Private Limited
06.2015 - 07.2022
- Led multiple enterprise-scale initiatives across Pricing, Ordering, Catalog, Payments, and Identity domains, driving architecture, design, and development for microservices and platform-scale features that power Adobe’s multi-billion-dollar commerce ecosystem serving millions of global customers.
- Engineered and scaled foundational microservices including Pricing Hub, Prices NG, Runtime Pricing Service, Payment Request Service, Payment Instrument Service, Available Offer Service, Order Service, Purchase Eligibility Service, and Tax Invoice Service—each processing 10,000+ requests per second with 99.99% availability
- Drove architecture, technical design, and development for the above services, achieving sub-100ms global response times across critical services, ensuring extensibility and scalability, and enabling 50% faster delivery of new features across commerce workflows.
- Spearheaded experiments and Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs), led technology stack evaluation and finalization, and influenced adoption of Kafka, Kubernetes, and DynamoDB as architectural standards—resulting in 30% cost efficiency gains and higher resilience across Adobe’s platforms.
- Collaborated across global engineering teams (India, U.S., and U.K.), aligning execution with strategic business goals and accelerating release cycles by 20% through streamlined coordination and automation.
- Translated complex business requirements into scalable solutions, enabling rapid launch of new subscription models and commerce capabilities that generated hundreds of millions in incremental revenue.
- Mentored and guided engineers through design reviews, code walkthrough, and knowledge sharing, cutting escaped defects by 28%, raising unit-test coverage from 62%→80%, and reducing PR turnaround from 2.1 days→0.9 days.
Sr. Software Engineer
Intuit India Product Development Centre Pvt. Ltd
02.2014 - 06.2015
- Collected and analyzed feature-level functional requirements, translating business needs into scalable technical solutions for QuickBooks Online (QBO), an accounting platform used by 7M+ small and medium businesses worldwide.
- Performed requirement analysis and business process mapping, ensuring new features aligned seamlessly with customer workflows. Directly contributed to 30% faster adoption of new modules and higher customer satisfaction scores (CSAT +12%).
- Led solution architecture and high-level technical design, including impact analysis, to deliver robust, extensible features. Improved system maintainability and reduced post-release defects by 25%.
- Designed detailed low-level specifications and implemented product features, driving end-to-end development from concept through deployment. Achieved on-time delivery for 100% of assigned features, accelerating release velocity.
- Executed PoCs and experiments to validate new approaches (cloud APIs, service integrations, data flows), enabling 20% faster feasibility validation and reducing risk for future enhancements.
- Collaborated with Product Managers and QA teams across requirement handoff, UAT, and defect resolution, reducing requirement-to-release cycle time by 18% and lowering regression defect leakage to under 2%.
- Contributed to the evolution of QuickBooks Online, helping scale the platform’s commerce and accounting capabilities, ultimately supporting billions of transactions annually and strengthening its leadership in the SMB accounting software market.
Project Lead
Brocade Communications System Pvt. Ltd
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Led a team of developers while independently contributing to the design and development of the Software License Key / SwPortal application, a mission-critical platform enabling tens of thousands of Brocade customers worldwide to activate and manage purchased product licenses.
- Performed requirement analysis and business process mapping, ensuring licensing workflows aligned with business needs and compliance mandates. Contributed to 20% faster license activation times and improved customer onboarding experience.
- Drove solution architecture and high-level design using UML modeling tools (Visio, Rational Software Architect), creating blueprints that reduced design ambiguity and cut rework by 20% across development cycles.
- Designed and implemented core licensing components covering transaction management, feature enablement, and scalability, enabling the platform to securely process millions of license transactions annually.
- Redesigned the data layer, ORM, and transaction management system, achieving 40% performance improvement, enhanced maintainability, and higher fault tolerance under load.
- Developed the DAO layer with auditing and transaction support, strengthening compliance and ensuring full traceability of license transactions—a critical requirement for enterprise customers.
- Conducted code reviews, refactoring, and unit testing, improving overall code quality and reducing defect leakage into production by 25%, raising engineering standards across the team.
- Collaborated across onsite–offshore teams for seamless delivery, actively engaging in UAT cycles, defect triage, and production readiness. This coordination enabled on-time releases for 100% of product milestones.
Senior Analyst Developer
Goldman Sachs Services Pvt Ltd
12.2011 - 01.2012
- Contributed to the development and maintenance of investment banking solutions within the Derivative Trade Processing Business Unit, supporting applications that processed thousands of derivative trades daily with zero tolerance for downtime.
- Supported mission-critical trade processing systems through defect resolution, issue triage, and system stabilization efforts, achieving a 20% reduction in high-severity production incidents and ensuring continuous compliance with regulatory standards.
- Participated in rapid knowledge transfer sessions, enabling quick onboarding and effective support for banking applications. Demonstrated impact by resolving 90% of assigned issues within SLA, ensuring minimal disruption to high-value trading operations.
- Collaborated with senior engineers and business analysts to improve workflows and streamline defect triage, helping reduce average defect resolution time by 25%.
Senior System Engineer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2010 - 12.2011
- Led and contributed to the design and development of OrderMax / Order Management Framework (OMF), a business-critical system used by thousands of Bell’s Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to manage millions of customer orders annually across Wireline, Internet/DSL, and Satellite/IPTV services.
- Analyzed Statements of Work (SOWs) and business requirements, translating them into detailed application designs with 100% requirement coverage and zero missed business-critical features across multiple releases.
- Created low-level designs using Rational Modeller, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and reducing downstream rework by 20%.
- Developed and enhanced Java/J2EE modules by integrating Web Services for order workflows, delivering scalable, extensible functionality that reduced order processing time by 30% and improved CSR efficiency.
- Utilized InfoEngine, Bugzilla, and SVN for process adherence, configuration management, and defect tracking, reducing defect leakage to atleast under 2% in production.
- Designed test cases, use cases, and process documentation, ensuring high reliability and regulatory compliance across all deliverables.
- Mentored and guided junior engineers, fostering coding and design best practices that raised team productivity by atleast 20% and improved overall code quality.
- Coordinated directly with customers to validate requirements, resolve issues, and ensure successful delivery of complex order management features.
Staff Consultant/Application Engineer
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
03.2009 - 05.2010
- Performed requirement analysis in the Tax and Utilities domain, mapping complex business processes into product development within the Oracle Meter Data Management (MDM) system, which processes millions of utility device messages daily for global clients.
- Leveraged Oracle Utilities Application Framework (OUAF) to accelerate development and customization for both MDM and Customer Care & Billing (CCB). Achieved 20% faster feature delivery and reduced customization effort by 30% across multiple client implementations.
- Designed and implemented low-level modules with detailed process documentation, ensuring strict alignment with product requirements and architectural standards, which reduced rework and defect rates by 15%.
- Developed and customized Java/J2EE-based modules in MDM and CCB, enhancing product extensibility and enabling new customer-driven enhancements that supported large-scale utility billing and meter data operations.
- Executed structured code deployments across development and production environments, achieving >95% on-time release cycles with minimal rollback incidents.
- Conducted unit testing, debugging, and QA defect resolution, improving system reliability and lowering defect leakage to under 3% in production.
- Contributed to the evolution of Oracle MDM, a mission-critical product orchestrating long-running utility business processes (e.g., commissioning, decommissioning, device state monitoring), which improved utility providers’ ability to manage device lifecycles and regulatory compliance at scale.
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies Ltd
06.2006 - 03.2009
- Promoted to Technology Lead within 3 years—an accelerated recognition given to less than 5% of engineers—based on exceptional technical expertise, architectural leadership, and consistent high performance across multiple enterprise projects.
- Architected enterprise-grade applications using layered design patterns (Business Layer, Facade Layer, DAO, Adapter), ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reusability. This architectural approach reduced future development effort by 25% and improved system reliability.
- Designed end-to-end application workflows leveraging Struts (presentation layer) and Spring (DI, IoC, DAO) for loosely coupled modular systems, cutting integration issues by 30% and enabling faster release cycles.
- Prepared component and high-level designs (HLDs) with 100% requirement coverage, consistently delivering on-time projects with zero missed business-critical features.
- Oversaw quality engineering by managing unit, integration, and system testing with JUnit frameworks. Achieved , exceeding industry benchmarks.
- Configured and managed WebSphere Application Server (WAS 6.0) deployments, optimizing application reliability and ensuring 99.9% uptime SLA for critical systems.
- Mentored and led junior developers, driving best practices in design, coding, and reviews. Increased team productivity by 30% and improved delivery predictability.
- Delivered multiple enterprise-scale insurance projects—including Financial Information Reporting System (FIRS), Funds Transaction Manager (FTM), and Automatic Claim Adjudication System (ACAS)—platforms that processed millions of transactions annually, reduced claim adjudication times by 60%, and enabled compliance-driven financial reporting for global clients.
Education
B.E - COMPUTER SCIENCE
UCE Burla Autonomous Engineering College
Pre Degree(XII) - undefined
Delhi Public School
SSLC (X) - undefined
K.V Koraput
Skills
Enterprise Architecture & Platform Strategy
Timeline
Senior Architect & Senior Computer Scientist
Adobe Systems India Private Limited
06.2015 - 07.2022
Sr. Software Engineer
Intuit India Product Development Centre Pvt. Ltd
02.2014 - 06.2015
Project Lead
Brocade Communications System Pvt. Ltd
01.2012 - 01.2014
Senior Analyst Developer
Goldman Sachs Services Pvt Ltd
12.2011 - 01.2012
Senior System Engineer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2010 - 12.2011
Staff Consultant/Application Engineer
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
03.2009 - 05.2010
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies Ltd
06.2006 - 03.2009
Pre Degree(XII) - undefined
Delhi Public School
SSLC (X) - undefined
K.V Koraput
Lead Architect & Senior Computer Scientist 2
Adobe Systems India Private Limited
7 2022 - Current
B.E - COMPUTER SCIENCE
UCE Burla Autonomous Engineering College
Awards
- Kudos Award, Adobe, 2021
- Covid-19 Kudos Special Award, Adobe, 2020
- Outstanding Contribution to Core Data Service team, Adobe, 2020
- Kudos Award, Adobe, 2019
- Excellence in Prepurchase assignments - Dralion, Sku Import and Prices NG services, Adobe, 2019
- Bravo Award, Adobe, 2017
- Breakthrough in increasing PRS and resolving critical ASR issues, Adobe, 2017
- High Five Award, Adobe, 2016
- Outstanding contribution on POC design involving Lambda, Redshift and AWS stream., Adobe, 2016
- Kudos Award, Adobe, 2015
- Critical Fixes in the Backend Services involving multithreading issues., Adobe, 2015
- Intuit Spot Light Award, Intuit, 2014
- Implementation of critical features for SMB India Market, QuickBooks Online, Intuit, 2014
- Button Award, Brocade Communications, 2012
- Button Award, Brocade Communications, 2013
- Excellence in Redesign , Re Architecture Project, Brocade Communications, 2013
- Star Award, Brocade Communications, 2008
- Outstanding Contribution to AETNA development project in 2008, Brocade Communications, 2008
- Nomination Most Valuable Player, Infosys, 2008
- Received nomination for Yearly MVP award by Infosys, Infosys, 2008
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