Dessie Sadrzadeh
Investor at Firsthand Alliance
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Angel Partner
2021 - Current
Firsthand.vc is an inception stage VC investing in autonomous B2B software across industries.
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.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Silicon Valley WiE Advisory Board Member
2017
http://www.sjsu.edu/wie/
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
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.
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.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
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.
The Gap is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer.
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.
Education
Masters
1991 - 1997