UXINDIA 2025

Sreedhar

Gade

Vice President, Engineering & Responsible AI, Freshworks

Panel
Design & AI
Beginner Designers
Mid-level Designers
Design Leaders

About The Speaker

Sreedhar Dage is a Global Technology Leader & Evangelist with over 20 years of experience building and leading internet-scale technology organizations. With customer obsession at the core, he drives impact and business outcomes through secure cloud and mobile strategies, rapid execution, and innovation at scale.

 

Sreedhar has deep domain expertise across B2B SaaS industries including CRM, contract management, and event management, spanning both commercial and federal multi-cloud environments. He has led critical functions in one of the world’s largest commerce engineering systems, processing over $70B in revenue with extreme performance, availability, and security requirements.

 

As a Technology Country Head, he managed a 4,000+ employee organization across six countries, driving ERP, CRM, and analytics adoption to improve productivity and outcomes while leading strategy, hiring, and thought leadership initiatives. He has successfully forged global partnerships with OEMs and vendors, scaling world-class Engineering, SRE, and Security organizations.

 

Sreedhar’s expertise spans multi-cloud architecture (Azure & AWS), internet-scale infrastructure with 2M+ servers, large-scale identity and zero-trust security strategies, and building cloud-native, self-healing applications through SRE and DevOps practices. He has managed multimillion-dollar Capex/Opex budgets, balancing performance, reliability, and security with business growth.

 

Beyond enterprise leadership, he is an active technology evangelist, speaking at global conferences and contributing thought leadership in IoT, machine learning, and cloud technologies, while also writing on career guidance and leadership development.