Experience20+ Years
LevelCXO

Executive Overview

I have worked with amazing teams in multiple industries, startups to big companies, both US and UK, B2B, B2C, SaaS, public and private cloud, and on-prem. I led all of engineering and product management as a member of the executive team multiple times. I feel pretty confident on aggressively leading and scaling 6Ps for success: People, Productivity, Platforms, Products, Processes, and Passion/Culture. I am known as a very technical manager and people person. I have been very successful in hiring great talent. Due to multiple years of industrial experience at product to research level, I have gained expert knowledge and delivered value in multiple areas such as big data, computational digital advertising (for display, video, mobile, social, search), high throughput and low latency distributed systems, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, web search (end-to-end), data analytics, metrics, monitoring, team collaboration and knowledge management products, e-commerce search and vertical shopping, social shopping, recommendation systems, electronic design automation. I enjoy keeping my innovation, research, and coding skills sharp. For details, pls refer to: - Patents: 44+ at https://ppubs.uspto.gov - Patent applications: 69+ at http://ppubs.uspto.gov - Publications at http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/d/Dasdan:Ali - Citations: 5,000+ and h-index=32 at https://scholar.google.com - Open source contributions at https://github.com/alidasdan and https://github.com/ArchC/SystemC

Career Timeline

Professional employment history
  • DropboxCurrent
    2025–Present· 1 yr 9 mos
    • Chief Technology OfficerCurrent
      2025–Present
  • 2023–2025· 2 yrs
    • Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
      2023–2025
  • 2019–2023· 4 yrs
    • Head of Engineering, Work Management for All Teams
      2021–2023
    • Head of Engineering, Confluence Cloud
      2019–2021
  • 2018–2019· 1 yr
    • Director, Product Engineering
      2018–2019
  • 2016–2018· 2 yrs
    • Head/VP of Engineering, Data and Marketing Automation
      2016–2018
  • 2016–2016· 0 mos
    • CTO and VP of Engineering
      2016–2016
  • 2011–2015· 4 yrs
    • SVP of Engineering and Product Management
      2011–2015
    • Co-Founder
      2011–2011
  • 2009–2011· 2 yrs
    • Director, Engineering
      2009–2011
  • 2006–2010· 4 yrs
    • Director of Engineering, Metrics and Analysis for Web Search
      2006–2010

Education

Computer Science

UC Irvine

MSc

Computer Science, Computer Engineering

Bilkent University

PhD

Computer Science

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

BSc

Computer Science, Computer Engineering

Boğaziçi University

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Vice Chair & President
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Chief Technology Officer
Chief Operating Officer

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Skills & Expertise

20 of 20 skills
PythonAlgorithmsInformation RetrievalEDAObject Oriented DesignAlgorithm DesignRecommender SystemsArtificial intelligenceSearch AdvertisingData AnalysisC++Machine LearningScalabilityPerlDistributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringMetricsHadoopSearchData Mining