Ali Dasdan

Ali Dasdan is the Chief Technology Officer at Dropbox, where he leads the company’s technology vision and strategy. A seasoned engineering leader, Ali has spent his career guiding teams at the forefront of innovation—building products that empower collaboration, simplify complexity, and scale for millions of users.

 

Before joining Dropbox, Ali served as CTO of ZoomInfo, where he helped shape the company’s technology platform and accelerate growth. He previously held senior leadership roles at Atlassian, overseeing engineering for Confluence Cloud and Work Management, as well as at Tesco, Poynt, eBay, Yahoo, and Synopsys. Across these roles, Ali has built a reputation for bringing together engineering excellence, product innovation, and a people-first approach to leadership.

 

Ali holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and degrees in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University and Bogazici University in Türkiye.

Driven by curiosity and collaboration, Ali is passionate about building technology that not only solves today’s problems but also inspires the future of work.