Amit Kumar Padhy is a Senior Computer Scientist II and Lead Architect at Adobe. Based in Sunnyvale in the San Francisco Bay Area, he works out of Adobe’s San Jose, California headquarters. He specializes in cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and AI-enabled digital commerce. He architects and modernizes mission-critical, event-driven microservices at a global scale, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, cost optimization, and platform governance. Amit is an invited keynote speaker at several international IEEE conferences and has delivered PRO-level talks at leading industry events, including DeveloperWeek, ProductWorld, and major AI and Data Summits.  He has also served on advisory boards for major national and international conferences.