Amit Kumar Padhy
Lead Architect & Senior Computer Scientist II • Senior Member, IEEE • Professional Member, ACM • W3C Standards Contributor
Sunnyvale,CA
Summary
Lead Architect & Senior Computer Scientist II with Adobe, with nearly 20 years of experience driving architecture for Cloud Tech and AI-driven Digital Commerce Platforms. Recognized for designing and scaling high-availability, fault-tolerant systems and transforming legacy monoliths into AI-enabled microservices that support millions of users and multi-billion-dollar revenue streams.
Recognized as an Expert across Pricing, Payments, Ordering, Catalog, and Billing platforms, delivering innovation through automation, cloud optimization, and resilient engineering. Skilled in Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Transformation, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and event-driven systems, with hands-on experience in diverse tech stacks, languages, databases, and technologies. Leads architecture and design in Adobe’s Commerce Architecture Council and Agentic AI eCommerce work group.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Architect & Sr. Computer Scientist II
Adobe
06.2015 - 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
- 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.
Sr. Software Engineer
Intuit India Product Development Centre Pvt. Ltd
02.2014 - 06.2015
- Delivered scalable solutions for 7M+ SMB users of QBO (Quickbooks Online) , powering billions of annual transactions.
- Translated business needs into features that drove 30% faster adoption and +12% CSAT.
- Led solution architecture & impact analysis, improving maintainability and cutting defects by 25%.
- Drove end-to-end feature delivery with 100% on-time releases, accelerating release velocity.
- Executed PoCs on cloud APIs & integrations, enabling 20% faster feasibility validation.
- Partnered with Product & QA to streamline workflows, reducing cycle time by 18% and defect leakage to .
Project Lead
Brocade Communications System Pvt. Ltd
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Led design & development of a mission-critical licensing platform for tens of thousands of customers.
- Improved onboarding with 20% faster activations and compliant licensing workflows.
- Redesigned data/transaction layer, delivering 40% performance gains and higher fault tolerance.
- Drove architecture & core component design, enabling millions of secure license transactions annually.
- Ensured 100% on-time releases while cutting production defects by 25%.
Senior Analyst Developer
Goldman Sachs Services Pvt Ltd
12.2011 - 01.2012
- Supported mission-critical trade systems processing thousands of derivatives daily with zero downtime tolerance.
- Reduced high-severity production incidents by 20% through defect resolution & stabilization efforts.
- Resolved 90% of issues within SLA, minimizing disruption to high-value trading operations.
- Partnered with engineers & analysts to streamline workflows, cutting 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 Modeler, 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.
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.
- Developed and customized Java/J2EE-based modules in MDM and CCB, enhancing product extensibility and enabling new customer-driven enhancements
- 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.
- Designed enterprise-grade applications in Java using layered design patterns (Business Layer, Facade Layer, DAO, Adapter), leveraging Struts (presentation layer) and Spring (DI, IoC, DAO) for loosely coupled modular systems ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reusability. This design approach reduced future development effort by 25% and improved system reliability.
- 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
Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool11.2023
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering
Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology
Burla, Sambalpur05.2006
Skills
Enterprise Architecture & Platform Strategy
Timeline
Lead Architect & Sr. Computer Scientist II
Adobe
06.2015 - Current
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
Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
Liverpool John Moores University
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering
Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology
Awards
- Ways of Working (WoW) - Create the Future, Adobe. 2023
- Kudos Award, Adobe, 2021
- Covid-19 Kudos Special Award, Adobe, 2020
- Kudos Award, Adobe, 2019
- Bravo Award, Adobe, 2017
- High Five Award, Adobe, 2016
- Kudos Award, Adobe, 2015
- Intuit Spot Light Award, Intuit, 2014
- Button Award, Brocade Communications, 2012
- Button Award, Brocade Communications, 2013
- Star Award, Brocade Communications, 2008
- Nomination Most Valuable Player, Infosys, 2008