Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda

Dr. Katragadda is a pioneer in crowdsourcing and building products for the underserved. His creation, Google Map Maker, tripled the world’s digital maps corpus, mapping 4 billion people in 187 countries. The UN and aid agencies have used these user generated maps to assist and rescue millions. Dr. Katragadda co-founded Google’s first international engineering center and was formerly the Head of Google’s – India products having invented, led several products including Crowdsourced YouTube Subtitles, Crowdsourced translation corpus, Indic handwriting and Google Transliteration.

Dr. Katragadda is currently focused on contributing towards India’s nation building, by being the founder of Indihood, Swaja Labs, an architect of Aarogya Setu, Digital India’s Open API and AP Government’s Fiber Grid.