Career Talk - The "Founder" mindset in a Fortune 500
The tech landscape isn’t just changing; it’s being rewritten. To help you navigate what’s next, Atlanta YP is proud to host an evening featuring two powerhouse technology leaders.
Our guest speakers bring a combined wealth of expertise in AI-driven platforms, cloud-native architecture, product management and enterprise engineering. More importantly, they know what it takes to lead during a period of rapid digital transformation.
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Architectural Insights: Learn how to build intelligent, scalable systems that survive the real world.
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The Founder Mindset: Discover how to drive innovation and "intrapreneurship" within large-scale organizations.
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Career Roadmap: Get direct advice on navigating leadership roles in the evolving AI era.
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- Starts 20 February 2026 05:00 AM UTC
- Ends 07 March 2026 01:00 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Amit Kumar Padhy
Biography:
Amit Kumar Padhy is a Senior Computer Scientist II and Lead Architect at Adobe, specializing in AI-enabled digital commerce and cloud-native enterprise platforms. With 20 years of experience, he has built and modernized mission-critical systems end-to-end, evolving them into resilient, event-driven microservices operating at a global scale. He is a Lead Architect for Adobe Unified Platform (AUP) and has been part of CloudTech organizations focused on high availability, fault tolerance, automation, cloud optimization, and intelligent decisioning—accelerating performance and business agility. Amit serves on Adobe’s Commerce Architecture Council, contributes to web standards initiatives, and has previously delivered large-scale enterprise systems, software products, and technology platforms at Oracle, Goldman Sachs, Intuit, and IBM. He also holds leadership roles in ACM, supports IEEE communities, mentors engineers, and helps shape long-term technical strategy.
Rudra Roy Choudhary
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Rudra Roy Choudhury is an AI Product Leader, with 10+ years of experience building AI/ML, SaaS, & Platform products driving customer experience and operational excellence across B2B & B2C. Outside his day job, Rudra serves as the AI Council Advisor at Products That Count where he supports global product leaders and startups in building & scaling AI products that truly matter. Rudra is a published author in IEEE and Mind The Product, and was recognized by Amplitude as the Top 50 Global Product Leader 2025 for his contribution in the field of Product and AI. Academically, Rudra holds a masters in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a masters in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, with a passion for building products at the intersection of technology and commerce that solve deep customer problems.