Dessie Sadrzadeh

Angel Partner

2021 - Current

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.

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

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.

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.

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.