Ron Pragides

Limited Partner

2021 - Current

Advisor / Investor

2020

Various Startups including: 2tm (Mercado Bitcoin), Allstacks, Altruist, Ampaire, AngelList, Aspecto (acquired by SmartBear), Atrium, Autonomy, Cacheflow, Cake Equity, Capbase (acquired by Deel), Capchase, Carta, Check, dragonboat.io, Edge, Exosonic, FlexClub (acquired by Reflex Mobility), Giggster, Gong, Gorgias, Hacker Noon, Hum Capital, JetHR, JOKR, Keywise AI, LeadIQ, Meratas, MetaMap (acquired by Incode), miggos, Momentum.io, Nacelle, Nelo, PeachPay, People.ai, Plato (acquired by Coda), Rippling, Roofstock, Seeds Investor, SproutFi (acquired by Vest.app), Terminal, Truv, Untapped (acquired by Podium Education), Vareto Limited Partner in funds including: Blank Ventures, FootPrint Coalition, GTMfund, Maple VC, MKT1 Capital, Operator Stack, Scribble Ventures.

Senior Vice President, Engineering

2022 - 2023

Led a global 130+ Engineering team to enable online banking payments as an alternative to credit & debit cards. Partnered with stakeholders in the U.S., Brazil, Portugal, and Sweden to deliver a trusted payment experience for merchants worldwide.

Vice President of Engineering

2021 - 2022

Scaled the Engineering team from 50 to 100 in less than 12 months. Established quarterly OKRs to align with the goals of the business. Restructured the Engineering team and processes for sustainable growth.

Vice President of Engineering

2019 - 2020

Led global team of 80 Engineers across San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, and Rio. Responsible for the flagship product that enables companies to maintain their capitalization table, and to issue electronic shares & options. Provided the centralized database of ownership to manage equity portfolios and enable liquidity of private company shares.

Advisor

2018 - 2019

AppDirect built a commerce platform for selling cloud services like: Autodesk, Box, Concur, DocuSign, Google G-Suite, Microsoft Office 365, and Zendesk. Company pivoted strategy and became a channel master agent to directly sell cloud services.

Vice President of Engineering

2017 - 2018

Led global team of 200+ Engineers across San Francisco, Montréal, Buenos Aires, and Pune. Defined an Engineering Roadmap to improve tooling, processes, and architecture. Established quarterly OKRs for alignment with company goals. Created a Developer Productivity team to drive efficiency. Defined a career path to guide Engineer growth within the company.

Advisor

2016 - 2017

BigCommerce provides a SaaS e-commerce platform. Company filed for IPO in 2020.

Senior Vice President of Engineering

2015 - 2016

Joined as the inaugural employee in SF to establish the corporate hub for Product and Engineering. Scaled the team from 65 to 130 across San Francisco, Sydney, and Austin. Responsible for Software Development, Quality, Technical Operations, Data, Security, and IT. Drove improvements including 99.99% uptime and 30% reduction in page response times. Executive sponsor of the company's first acquisition, enabling key integrations with: Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Pinterest, and Square.

Vice President of Engineering

2014 - 2015

Director of Engineering

2012 - 2014

Led the Engineering Services team of 60 through the Twitter IPO. Built systems that enabled Legal and Support to safeguard users and fulfill law enforcement requests. Created business intelligence tools to provide insights on Media Partnerships and Platform Operations. Delivered the content management system for all Twitter websites. Built the developer productivity tools used to deliver the core Twitter platform. Led the acquisition of a training company to gain competency in key mobile technologies.

Senior Director, Mergers & Acquisitions

2011 - 2012

Selected by the SVP of Engineering to perform due diligence on companies targeted for acquisition. Provided recommendations to executive management that influenced corporate development strategy. Served as the Engineering touch-point for integrating acquired teams in Toronto, Tel Aviv, Hyderabad, Stockholm, and Paris.

Senior Director, Engineering

2010 - 2011

Joined pre-IPO Salesforce and led an Engineering team of 35 in delivering the Force.com platform for building Cloud applications. Established recruiting, on-boarding & engineering to scale the team. Led mobile Engineering team that released the first enterprise iOS application at App Store launch. Drove acquisition of a U.K. startup to extend the Salesforce workflow product. Spearheaded initiative to file 200 patent applications in Q1 2010, surpassing all prior years combined.

Director, Software Engineering

2008 - 2010

Manager, Software Engineering

2004 - 2008

Engineering Manager

2001 - 2004

Led the development of a workflow system for electronically receiving and processing healthcare claims. System enabled backoffice users in India and the U.S. to process 1.5M medical, dental, and FSA claims per quarter.

Manager, Application Development

1999 - 2001

Managed 12 Engineers in a fast-paced startup. Built a high-traffic e-commerce website enabling registry purchases from retailers such as: Williams-Sonoma, Tiffany & Co., Neiman Marcus, and Bloomingdales.