We’re excited to announce that Ali Dasdan has joined Dropbox as our new Chief Expertise Officer. On this function, Ali will probably be liable for strengthening our technical foundations, growing our rigor in engineering and product improvement, and main our companywide technical technique.
Ali has the deep experience wanted to information Dropbox’s platform transformation as we develop capabilities to scale Sprint, our AI-powered common search instrument. Ali involves us from ZoomInfo, the place he served as CTO overseeing all of engineering, platform, infrastructure, information, enterprise, and safety. Beneath his management, ZoomInfo grew a domain-leading engineering group, expanded its know-how platform, launched a number of key AI merchandise together with Copilot, and accelerated its transfer into upmarket. Previous to ZoomInfo, Ali was at Atlassian, the place he oversaw engineering for Work Administration for All Groups (Confluence, Trello, and Jira for Work Administration) and demonstrated his means for development and scale.
Ali has spent a lot of his profession engaged on large-scale distributed techniques, huge information, search, and machine studying — which was a part of his PhD graduate work — and has a ton of expertise constructing productiveness software program and massive, foundational infrastructure. All through his profession, Ali has tackled large-scale challenges, together with rising groups, addressing tech debt, enhancing engineering velocity, and integrating AI/ML into merchandise.
Ali’s breadth of expertise will show invaluable as we proceed executing on our technique of scaling Sprint and simplifying and strengthening our worthwhile core enterprise to ship even larger worth to our clients. We’re thrilled to welcome Ali to the group.
