ali dasdan
CTO, Dropbox | Advisor
Dropbox•Mountain View, California, United States
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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
- DropboxCurrent2025–Present· 1 yr 9 mos
- Chief Technology OfficerCurrent2025–Present
- 2023–2025· 2 yrs
- Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer2023–2025
- 2019–2023· 4 yrs
- Head of Engineering, Work Management for All Teams2021–2023
- Head of Engineering, Confluence Cloud2019–2021
- 2018–2019· 1 yr
- Director, Product Engineering2018–2019
- 2016–2018· 2 yrs
- Head/VP of Engineering, Data and Marketing Automation2016–2018
- 2016–2016· 0 mos
- CTO and VP of Engineering2016–2016
- 2011–2015· 4 yrs
- SVP of Engineering and Product Management2011–2015
- 2011–2011· 0 mos
- Co-Founder2011–2011
- 2009–2011· 2 yrs
- Director, Engineering2009–2011
- 2006–2010· 4 yrs
- Director of Engineering, Metrics and Analysis for Web Search2006–2010
Education
Computer Science
UC IrvineMSc
Computer Science, Computer Engineering
Bilkent UniversityPhD
Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBSc
Computer Science, Computer Engineering
Boğaziçi University