Director of Product Design · Smartsheet · Greater Seattle

Dilip Jagadeesh

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Things I've led & built

Enterprise AI, platforms, and the occasional thing built entirely alone.

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Portrait of Dilip Jagadeesh

Not a straight line

One path, six turns: films to farms to hardware to the Fortune 500, and back to stories.

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Dilip Jagadeesh