About

Adish Abnave is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 15 years of experience in designing, architecting, and developing products that drive business metrics and delight users. As an Engineering Manager at Pinterest, he is responsible for leading full-stack growth teams that focus on user growth in emerging and strategic international markets. Adish has added millions of monthly active users to Pinterest in regions like LatAm, India, Middle East, and Japan by conducting deep user research, analyzing market data, building strategies, and executing hundreds of A/B experiments. Adish has extensive experience in building high-performing teams that make an impact on organizational objectives while having fun. He has battle scars from doing tactical hands-on work and has successfully set long-term technical and product strategies. Prior to Pinterest, Adish worked as a Senior Engineering Manager at realtor.com, where he led engineering efforts for the consumer web experience, handling around 60M unique users per month, 40M page views per day, and 250K requests per minute. He launched several enhancements to the search results and listing details pages of realtor.com via A/B experiments to improve UX and conversion metrics. Adish also built the next generation of the realtor.com website as a Progressive Web App using technologies like JavaScript, React JS, Redux, HTML, CSS, Node JS, Express JS, AWS EC2, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Git, Jenkins 2 pipeline, Docker, CloudFormation, and New Relic. Before realtor.com, Adish worked as an Engineering Manager at Verizon, where he was recognized as Engineer of the Year in 2017. He led the team in creating the BlueJeans desktop application with Node-Webkit (NW) framework, which became the top-rated client application of BlueJeans Network. Adish built and managed a productive team composed of engineers at different levels of expertise, significantly improving KPIs like active usage, meeting connection time, meeting connection rate, NPS, and quality scores. He also resolved critical issues with application crashes, reduced memory consumption, reduced CPU usage, and faster page load response times. Adish worked with product managers and UX teams to bring innovation to the product and lead the success of the product and the growth and development of individual team members. Adish holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Loyola University of Chicago and has expertise in web development, NodeJS, AWS, Javascript, ECS, New Relic, CI