Summary
Tushar Turkar is a seasoned software engineer with 10 years of experience designing and shipping graphics-heavy features for flagship products, currently driving Photoshop development as a Software Development Engineer 4 at Adobe. He has led end-to-end projects like Live Gradients—building GPU-driven on-canvas controls, rendering pipelines, and developer-friendly component frameworks—and has a track record of improving image quality via non-destructive workflows and cross-platform preset syncing. His background spans consumer mobile media engines at Samsung, HD visualization at Apple, and graduate-level image synthesis instruction, blending deep graphics expertise with pragmatic product delivery. Comfortable across low-level rendering, UI tooling, and systems that span cloud sync to GPU widgets, he pairs strong academic credentials (IIT Dhanbad, Texas A&M MS) with a habit of mentoring peers and ramping teams on complex features. An unspoken strength is his ability to translate research-grade image synthesis concepts into production-ready, memory- and performance-conscious implementations.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, 8.30 / 10.00, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, 8.30 / 10.00 at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.90 / 4.00, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.90 / 4.00 at Texas A&M University