Pranay Kumar


Computer Scientist @ Adobe Systems

About Me

I am a Developer/Computer Scientist working in Adobe India with a passion for C++ development. I have been currently working towards utilizing the capabilities of emerging Adobe Fonts experience within the Adobe products.

In the past several years with Adobe, I have contributed to the new licensing hybrid stack which is currently being used across the new version of Adobe Creative Cloud products such as Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign, etc.

My major interests lie in enabling the full potential of Adobe Fonts for consumers with the modern C++ usage to ensure more secure, reliable & performant applications. Proud participant and winner of CppCon'19 Poster program

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My Skills

Software Development

C++/ C / ObjC++ / Java / JS

I am a professional software developer and preferably in C++ / C and ObjC++, but I have worked with Java / Spring, JavaScript, too.

When designing and developing software architectures, I have a strong focus on modularity, performance and utilizing patterns and guidelines.

Project Management

Scrum / Agile / DevOps

As software development methodology, I like agile development like Scrum or Kanban for building and delivering an awesome library / component.

I love Git and have worked with other VCS like Perforce. For open projects, I like codacy and codefactor integrated to do static code analysis and good linter tools such as clang-tidy .

UI / UX

HTML5 / jQuery

I prefer having a smarter user interfaces for front end development. I like minimalistic UI with a clear workflow and omitting distracting and redundancy.

For building UI, I usually like building sectioned webpages using jQuery, Bootstrap. I have also used JSP for application servers.

Professional Experience

A compilation of companies I have worked for over the years and the projects I did there.

Adobe Systems

Work Experience

Adobe Systems Inc.

Company

June,2016 - Present

Computer Scientist

Licensing and Fonts

I have been working for Adobe Systems Inc, India over three+ years now starting from June, 2016, mostly with C++, partially with ObjC and Java. I started contributed to the legacy licensing stack of Adobe. While developing new features & learning intricate details of licensing, I acted as point of contact for licensing to almost all Adobe product teams and Adobe customer support team.

Later, 2018 onwards I passionately contributed to the new initiative of Next Generation Licensing stack of Adobe which is currently being used across the new version of Adobe Creative Cloud products such as Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign, etc. This was a huge success over legacy licensing stack as error rate dropped down to 0.16% compared to ~ 5% error rate of legacy stack.

I moved to Adobe Fonts team in April, 2019 where I have been currently working towards utilizing the capabilities of emerging Adobe Fonts experience within the Adobe products. These components are used in Adobe Products InDesign, Illustrator, Rocket (Photoshop for iOS) and few upcoming product launches of Adobe.

  • Contributed different features for unifying the Adobe Fonts experience across Adobe Products on Desktop / Mobile.
  • Worked on several APIs and features in NGL stack such as Idenity management system handling, client side handling for various proxy authentication mechanism, bridging legacy licensing for backward compatiability etc.
  • Added new service in Adobe backend licensing for Shared Device Licensing mode.
  • Various features and performance improvement alongside managing all product & customer support queries, issues.
  • Added features in legacy licensing stack for Virtualized environment handling, details here.

Samsung R&D

Work Experience

Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore

Company

May,2014- June,2016

Senior Software Engineer

Web and Cross platform solutions

I worked over two years at Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore from May,2014 to June,2016, mainly Including following -
  • Development for the Samsung S-Browser project in fingerprint sensor reading.
  • Interoperable solution development for Android to PC communication & controllability based on top of iJetty
  • Worked on building solution for customizing watchface from Android devices.
  • Web Application Development & porting of apps for Tizen OS & Wearable watches. Some of the apps have been showcased here and here
  • Open Source contributions for Chromium project under pranay.kumar@samsung.com. You may browse those here.
  • Exploration over NaCl based ARC (Android RunTime for Chromium).
  • To run Firefox OS over low-end mobile targets, porting and building ecosystem for the same.
For half a year, I also worked in the video coding department where I performed experiments with different deep learning frameworks (CUDA ConvNet, Theano, Pylearn2) for emulating the subjective video quality measurement.

Wooqer Advertising

Work Experience

Wooqer Advertising Services Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore

Company

July,2013 - April,2014

Platform Engineer

Various PaaS solutions

I worked at Wooqer Advertising Services Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore from 2013 to 2014 for a short duration ~10 months.

Wooqer is Create-it-Yourself (CIY) software platform which is an integrated, two-way measurable channel between content producer and content consumer. Platform offers building blocks (tool-set) to create, assign, launch and track any content (processes, information, structured feedback). Wooqer has some prestigious retail chains as their client such Adidas, Puma and Cnergy.

I worked upon -
  • SCORM standard inclusion & implementation for better training and assessment.
  • Added Online Assessment feature in the Wooqer platform.
  • Brought platform reports & analytics to the Wooqer Mobile.
  • Worked on solutions for Wooqer on Http Dynamic streaming similar to here

Talks

Online Available Talks from CppCon, 2019.

Contact

If you are interested in my work or software talks, please feel free to drop me a message.

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