Markus Mielke
Director of Product Management, Platform & Architecture, Adobe
Markus Mielke is listed as Director of Product Management, Platform & Architecture, Adobe. Markus spoke at Adobe MAX 2026 in November 2026 (speaker, “Demo Spotlight: Building the New Photoshop for the Future”).
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About
I'm Markus Mielke, a 30-year veteran of the software industry, and I joined Adobe a year ago to help modernize Photoshop for the next generation of creators. My work spans three fronts. On the experience side, I'm driving the UI modernization of Photoshop with Spectrum 2, Adobe's latest design language, to deliver a more consistent and streamlined creative workflow. On the technology side, I'm advancing Drover to establish a new foundation for how Photoshop is built and delivered. And at the core, we're modernizing Photoshop from the ground up with our Next Gen Engine, a re-architected foundation that will unlock faster performance, new AI capabilities, and the power creators need for limitless creativity. I believe great creative software has to evolve without losing what makes it great. My job is to honor Photoshop's decades-long legacy while reinventing how it performs, scales, and inspires. In my session, I'll take you behind the scenes of this long-term transformation and share an