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episode 9: Ron Pragides
Ron is an Advisor and former VP of Engineering at AppDirect, leading a team of 200+ across San Francisco, Montréal, Buenos Aires, and Pune. Before AppDirect, he was SVP Engineering at BigCommerce leading a team of 130+ across San Francisco, Sydney, and Austin. Prior to BigCommerce, Ron was Director of Engineering at Twitter from 2012 thru its IPO. Previously, Ron joined pre-IPO Salesforce where he held various Engineering leadership roles building the Salesforce Platform and on the cross-functional Mergers & Acquisitions team. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpragides/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrp