Mr. Dheemant Nagaraj

Dheemanth Nagaraj is the Co-Founder & CEO of Agrani Labs, a Bengaluru-based startup focused on next-generation datacenter innovations. A seasoned technologist, he has over two decades of experience architecting and delivering cutting-edge computing solutions across CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and system components.
At AMD, he served as Senior Fellow in the Datacenter Solutions Group, driving product architecture for EPYC server CPUs. During his 14+ years at Intel, he held leadership roles including Intel Fellow in the Datacenter & AI Group, where he was the lead architect for multiple generations of Xeon D, Xeon SP (Broadwell, Westmere-EX), and the Xe-HPC GPU (Ponte Vecchio). He also contributed to FPGA-based IPU innovations, creating new revenue streams through product breakthroughs.
Earlier in his career, Dheemanth worked at Hewlett-Packard as a Member and later Expert Member of Technical Staff, building foundational expertise in enterprise computing.
He holds a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from NIT Karnataka. Known for nurturing critical talent and building end-to-end technical capabilities from the ground up, Dheemanth combines deep technical vision with entrepreneurial leadership to shape the future of datacenter computing.