
Shantanu A
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Founder
Self Employed
Apr 2026 - Present • 4 mos
Founded Vichitra Collective (www.vichitracollective.com) as an independent computational photography and software studio after leaving Adobe. Building two open source projects: vc_image_utils, a C++ RAW image processing and computational photography library for HDR camera work, and devspec_toolkit, an AI driven, schema first software development harness that turns AI assisted development into a deterministic, machine checkable pipeline. Also writing and publishing photo essays and technical posts on computational photography and AI driven development on my website, and continuing to practice and exhibit photography.
Computer Scientist
Adobe • Temps plein
Jun 2016 - Apr 2026 • 9 yrs 10 mos
Imaging product engineer with Adobe Lightroom (Android) and Photoshop Elements. •I drove the user experience, implementation and influenced the design decisions behind most editing workflows:presets & profiles,crop & geometry,masking,healing/distraction removal, export,CAI/C2PA, editing controls like sliders and touch gestures. •Agentic & AI-assisted editing:I originated the concepts behind Lightroom's one-tap intelligent edits and AI-assistant/guided editing, which were later adopted into the shipping product. • Customer advocacy+product analytics:built Lightroom Android's first engineering-driven user-feedback→roadmap,set up workflow analytics to pinpoint friction,driving 30%+ reductions in workflow errors. •Practicing photographer & speaker:Adobe Art Fair (Phone Photography) winner; work exhibited in in various Adobe photography events (London,NYC,San Fransisco);led knowledge sessions on photography and RAW pipeline. Named inventor on a US patent for an intelligent color-hinting UX