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Dessie Sadrzadeh

Head of Product and Engineering, Google Experience Platform

Menlo Park, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Angel Partner

    2021

2018

  • Senior Director, Product and Engineering, Google Experience Platform

    2018

    Head of Engineering and Product for Google Experience Platform which encompasses the Material Design, Components ecosystem, Tooling, Google fonts and Lit/web components standardization that power Google applications and product areas, as well as billions of external developers.

WiE

2017

  • Silicon Valley WiE Advisory Board Member

    2017

    http://www.sjsu.edu/wie/

2011 - 2018

  • VP, Engineering - Lightning Platform Foundation

    2015 - 2018

    Engineering Leader of the foundational Lightning UI technologies at Salesforce - a modern JavaScript UI framework, components ecosystem and presentation layer APIs used by Salesforce, ISV/partners, and customers. Lightning powers the creation of dynamic and modern user experiences across desktop and mobile.

  • Sr. Director, Engineering - UI Platform and Mobile

    2011 - 2015

2005 - 2011

  • Sr Engineering Manager, Y! Homepage and Media Mobile

    2005 - 2011

    • Engineering leader for the Y! Homepage (www.yahoo.com - desktop and tablet version) global platform across 40+ markets and Media mobile apps, Personalized content, contextual advertising, CMS integration and other third party integration tools. • Honored twice in the span of 5 years with the "Yahoo! Superstar" award for exceptional leadership of the Engineering team(s) during the launch of critical projects with large business impact.

2004 - 2005

  • Engineering Team Lead - Gapinc.com

    2004 - 2005

    • Managed the engineering effort for Gapinc.com major architectural redesign with Enterprise WebSphere Portal and integration with a new CMS (Documentum). Established development and quality best practices strategy to scale towards automation and rapid delivery.

2002 - 2004

  • Principal Software Engineer

    2002 - 2004

    • Led quality for an Enterprise Wealth Management software suite for Private Banks e.g. Lehman Brothers, First Republic offering portfolio management, analytics, personal banking and CRM capabilities. Established and improved the development and quality engineering delivery lifecycle.

  • Lead Software Engineer

    1998 - 2002

    • Led the development and testing effort for multithreaded java web based application for workflow management of membership services from enrollment and qualifications to billing and cancellation of Providian Credit Cards. • Established strategy and toolset for unit, functional, integrated, and performance testing. Performed data analysis and post implementation validation that required creation of java programs and PL/SQL procedures for data manipulation.