Dipti
Agrawal

Running full speed, mid-stride

Dipti Agrawal co-founded Tudip Technologies on April 5, 2010, in Pune, India, alongside Tushar Apshankar - two NIT Durgapur engineers with four people on the payroll and no external funding. By 2026, she oversees a 600-person global operation with offices in the US, India, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, Colombia, UAE, and Nigeria, serving clients like Google, Adobe, LinkedIn, Databricks, and PaloAlto Networks. The company has developed over 300 products, holds CMMI Level 5 certification - a standard fewer than one percent of IT firms worldwide achieve - and recently earned Databricks Silver Partner status.

That kind of growth doesn't happen by accident. Agrawal's background as a certified Oracle ERP consultant - trained at Infosys Technologies Ltd and Hitachi Consulting - gave Tudip something that pure-code shops often lack: a fluency in how enterprises actually run. She built a delivery model that treats client solutions, not billable hours, as the real product. "I believe any business is about providing value to the client," she says. "Money is just a by-product."

Agrawal now splits her time between Campbell, California - where Tudip's US headquarters sits - and Pune, where the engineering core is based. The company she runs serves startups from seed stage to global enterprises, with a particular reputation as MVP Experts: teams who know how to turn a hypothesis into a working product fast, without the tech debt that usually comes with speed.

Tudip in figures

From chemical equations
to enterprise code

Agrawal studied Chemical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur - an unconventional entry point for a future tech CEO. She followed it with an MBA in Finance and Marketing from IBS Hyderabad, layering commercial instinct onto technical foundation. Then came roughly four years in the ERP trenches at Infosys and Hitachi Consulting, where she worked on Oracle ERP implementations and supply chain optimization for large enterprises.

The pivot to entrepreneurship wasn't a dramatic break - it was a calculated one. She had seen, from the inside, how large IT services firms worked and where the gaps were. Small clients got second-tier teams. Custom solutions got templated responses. Agrawal and Apshankar founded Tudip with the specific thesis that a smaller, more focused firm could deliver enterprise-grade work with startup responsiveness.

Today, Agrawal's company operates across AI/ML, cloud transformation, cybersecurity, data analytics, learning enablement, and digital transformation for industries including healthcare, manufacturing, fintech, gaming, and supply chain. Tudip also runs adjacent entities under the group umbrella: Tudip Learning (an ed-tech and upskilling arm) and Tudip Entertainment (gaming and interactive media).

Fifteen years,
one direction

The AI argument
she keeps making

In every interview, in every keynote, Agrawal returns to the same position: AI is a lever for human potential, not a replacement. At a moment when the tech industry is competing to claim the most alarming predictions, she brings the opposite energy.

She is also blunt about the risks. Algorithmic bias, misinformation, job displacement, IP concerns, privacy - Agrawal names these not to slow down AI adoption but to push for what she calls "responsible GenAI implementation": strategies that balance innovation with accountability rather than treating ethics as a PR layer.

The Tudip Learning division extends this philosophy into education: practical, hands-on AI curriculum built with experienced practitioners, updated to reflect what industry actually needs, and deliberately inclusive - because Agrawal's view is that skills gaps are an access problem before they're a talent problem.

Three words
that run the company

Dipti Agrawal distills Tudip's operating culture down to three terms: integrity, innovation, serenity. These aren't brand values on a slide deck. They surface in how Tudip hires, how it handles client relationships, and - notably - in how it has maintained a flat, low-drama culture at 600 people that would be easy to lose.

The diversity numbers at Tudip are not incidental. Agrawal has been an equal opportunities employer since the company's founding - and 15 women in top management roles is a number that most tech companies of any size cannot claim. She has actively focused on providing avenues for women's financial independence, and the company's leadership structure reflects that commitment concretely.

Her management approach is problem-solving first. "Clients come to us for solutions expecting us to solve their problems and we solve them really well." That simplicity, backed by CMMI Level 5 process discipline and a team that has delivered 300+ products, is the actual offer. No overpromising. No hand-wavy roadmaps. Results.

Awards worth
reading twice

What she actually says

The specifics

• She has a GitHub profile under dipti-agrawal (Tudip). A CEO with an active repository is rarer than it sounds.
• Tudip has grown from four people to 600 without taking outside funding - a bootstrapped global tech firm, which puts it in genuinely rare company.
• She studied Chemical Engineering before pivoting to IT and then to entrepreneurship - the longest academic route to running a software company one can imagine taking.
• Tudip's three core values - integrity, innovation, and serenity - are her personal philosophy, baked into the company from day one rather than adopted during a branding exercise.
• She posts on Twitter as @dipti1102 - sharing insights on technology, leadership, and Tudip's milestones in a conversational register very unlike most enterprise CEOs.
• The foundation stone of Tudip was laid on a specific date - April 5, 2010 - which she still references. The precision matters: it's a founding story, not a founding myth.