Aditya Falodiya

Professional Summary

Aditya Falodiya is a seasoned technology executive, innovator, and maker with over 25 years of experience building high-performance, cross-geo engineering organizations and delivering transformative software at enterprise scale. As Vice President of Engineering at HEN Technologies, he leads the development of advanced climate-tech solutions in the fire defense and water conservation domains, integrating fluid dynamics, intelligent cloud-connected IQ devices, and scalable edge-cloud architectures to enhance safety, resilience, and sustainable resource usage. He oversees multidisciplinary Electrical, Embedded, and Software teams while driving innovation in IoT, AI, machine learning, and real-time data pipelines.

Previously at Adobe, Aditya spent more than two decades in senior engineering leadership roles, driving R&D across Creative Cloud and Document Cloud. He led mission-critical services and high-impact, user-facing products including Acrobat Web, Adobe Sign, Adobe Asset Link (for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and XD), Creative Cloud desktop, Adobe Console for Enterprise, enterprise identity synchronization, Adobe Notification Service, Product Fulfillment Center, app streaming download engines, and entitlement services, while consistently delivering multiple 1.0 products across hybrid desktop and SaaS ecosystems. Beyond core product development, he also led product acquisition, monetization, and retention initiatives, generating direct business impact with hundreds of millions of monthly active users and hundreds of millions in ARR.

Aditya’s technical breadth covers distributed systems, enterprise SaaS, creative workflows, networking, and embedded/IoT platforms, with deep hands-on expertise across C/C++, Objective-C, modern web stacks, and RTOS-based systems. He has six granted patents (with additional filings underway), published multiple technical papers, and championed engineering excellence, intellectual property development, and a culture of rapid innovation.

With a career spanning climate-tech, enterprise software, financial systems, networking, and embedded systems, he brings a rare combination of product vision, systems thinking, and organizational leadership. He excels at building and guiding teams from concept to scale, architecting high-reliability software, and delivering next-generation experiences at the intersection of cloud, edge, and AI.

Current Role

Vice President of Engineering, HEN Technologies, San Francisco Bay Area — Oversees the product development and engineering of cutting edge IQ devices in fire defense space, managing Electrical, Embedded, and Software teams. Spearheading the creation of advanced devices and technologies integrating IoT, AI, and Machine Learning. Responsible for establishing the software stack for both edge and cloud environments, as well as building data pipelines to handle streaming data ingestion.

Prior Leadership at Adobe

• Senior Director of Engineering, Acrobat Web (2022–2025), Adobe Inc, San Francisco Bay Area — Led the Acrobat Web organization, bringing the PDF technology stack to the web and building next-generation, document-centric experiences that integrate GenAI/LLM capabilities. Responsibilities include elevating eSign as a “mega-verb” in Document Cloud, deep PDF–eSign integrations, and driving SMB growth through differentiated features (e.g., Product-led Growth, Fill & Sign, Legal Templates, Liquid Contracts rendering, Sensei-powered key-date extraction, and modernized in-app authoring/editor experiences).
• Director of Engineering, Digital Media Engineering (2017–2021), Adobe Inc, San Francisco Bay Area — Led Digital Media Foundations & Enterprise Engineering; managed three core groups: Enterprise Technology Lab (ETL), Foundation Technology Group (FTG), and Enterprise Deployment Engineering. FTG delivered the Partner API commerce ecosystem, stakeholder dashboards, and true-up systems. ETL conceptualized and shipped Adobe Asset Link (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD) and pioneered no-code, web-based creative production pipelines and campaign automation with Sensei.
• Senior Engineering Manager, Creative Cloud Experience (2013–2016), Adobe Inc, San Francisco Bay Area — Head of engineering for Creative Cloud desktop: owned architecture, product roadmap, and integrations (Behance, Typekit), and scaled services such as Adobe Notification System, Product Fulfillment Center, and Generic Context Service. Authored a decision-engineering framework for scrum team autonomy; filed multiple patents on app fulfillment, ratings/subscriptions, and cloud-desktop hybrid tech.
• Senior Engineering Manager (2004–2012), Adobe India — Led multi-team delivery of large-scale web services, client apps, deployment/licensing systems (AAMEE), and common auth/provisioning for CS Live; shipped multi-platform C/C++/Obj-C/ActionScript products on Windows and macOS. Filed multiple USPTO patents and drove a culture of invention.

Earlier Experience

• HCL Technologies — Tech Lead, Financial Solutions Group (2003–2004) — Re-architected NCR’s Passport subsystem (ImageMark Archive), authored RFCs, and served as SME during U.S. bank deployments; contributed to payment systems and EMV domain initiatives.
• NCR GmbH — Consultant, Professional Services (2002) — Worked on EMV-2000/Chip-and-PIN, ATM software layers, TLOG, and ICC implementations across APTRA devices and OS/2/Windows environments.
• HCL Technologies — Senior Software Engineer, Advanced Technology Center (2000–2002) — Led telecom/embedded systems work (MP/PPP/BAP/BACP, Ethernet/WAN drivers), Nucleus RTOS on PPC850, and configuration systems; collaborated on pre-sales assets and campus recruitment.

Expertise

• Product & Engineering Leadership: End-to-end product conceptualization to delivery, rapid prototyping, and scalable cloud/desktop hybrids; cross-geo management of internal teams, vendors, and offshore partners.
• Enterprise & SaaS: Identity, licensing, provisioning, deployment automation, and service integrations across Creative/Document Cloud ecosystems.
• Domains: Creative content workflows, distributed computing, application management, enterprise deployments, networking, and financial/payment systems.
• Technical Stack: C, C++, Objective-C, ReactJS, NodeJS, ActionScript, Java; OS/Platforms include Win32, OS/2, Unix (Solaris/Linux), macOS, and Nucleus RTOS on Sparc/PowerPC/Intel. IoT - ESP32, Arduino, Nvidia Jetson Nano.

Key Achievements

• Intellectual Property: 6 granted patents with additional filings in the pipeline.
• Publications: 3 externally published technical papers plus numerous internal publications (decision engineering, agile autonomy, software entropy).
• Innovation: Drove multiple 1.0 launches, complex suite/product deliveries, and tightly-coupled components across Creative Cloud and Document Cloud.

Education & Leadership Development

• Masters in Computer Application (Computer Science and Management) — Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya.
• Bachelor of Science (Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics) — Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya.
• Post Gradudate Diploma in Global Strategic Management — Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, Hyderabad.
• Adobe Business Leadership - In-Market Immersion programme.
• Leadership Agility - Changewise Leadership programme.