Amit Kumar Padhy is a Senior Computer Scientist II at Adobe Inc., specializing in AI-driven, cloud-native digital commerce platforms. With two decades in enterprise systems engineering, he architects core commerce capabilities-pricing, payments, and ordering-at global scale and has been instrumental in Adobe’s subscription and cloud evolution. His research interests span Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Enterprise Systems Engineering, focusing on Intelligent Platform Architecture, AI-Powered Commerce Ecosystems, and Cloud-Native Distributed Systems. He contributes to Web standards and Adobe’s Commerce Architecture Council, and serves the community through IEEE and conferences for reviewing, advising, and thought leadership, while mentoring engineers in Silicon Valley.

Amit’s work sits at the intersection of distributed systems design, multimodal intelligence, and high-resilience platform engineering. He leads the architecture for Adobe’s Enterprise Pricing Platform and intelligent onboarding frameworks, driving initiatives that modernize digital commerce through event-driven systems, agentic AI, and real-time decisioning. His innovations support billions of dollars in global transactions and enable scalable, fault-tolerant customer experiences across Adobe’s ecosystem.

Beyond industry impact, Amit is an active contributor to the academic and professional community. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, ACM Communications Chair for the Fremont Chapter, Fellow of IETE, Distinguished Fellow of SCRS, and an invited speaker at multiple IEEE conferences. He frequently reviews for IEEE and Elsevier journals and serves on advisory boards advancing research in AI and systems engineering.

A passionate mentor and builder of technical communities, Amit supports engineers and students with mentoring and regional IEEE/ACM initiatives. His work continues to bridge research, enterprise engineering, and intelligent automation to shape the next generation of AI-driven digital platforms.