Praerit Garg

Praerit is Smartsheet’s chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering. He brings more than 23 years’ experience building large-scale distributed systems and internet services, and is co-inventor on more than 25 patents. Most recently, Praerit was general manager for identity, access, and directory services at AWS. Prior to that, he co-founded Symform, a distributed internet storage startup which was acquired by Quantum. He also served for 12 years at Microsoft, was part of the original team that built Active Directory, and led the design and implementation of many of the user identity, access, and encryption features in Windows. He built and led a 300+ person organization that delivered distributed systems management capabilities across Windows, System Center, and Visual Studio products. Praerit is passionate about building an engineering culture of innovation that scales, finding simpler solutions to hard problems, and delivering great customer experiences. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.