Ron Pragides

Experience

Trustly

Senior Vice President, Engineering 2021 - 2023 (over 2 years)

Scaled the Engineering team from 50 to 130 in less than 18 months, enabling online banking payments as an alternative to credit and debit cards. Responsible for Risk Engineering,... more

Vice President of Engineering 2021 - 2022 (11 months)

Scaled the Engineering team from 50 to 130 in less than 18 months, enabling online banking payments as an alternative to credit and debit cards. Responsible for Risk Engineering,... more

GTMfund

Limited Partner 2021 - Present (over 5 years)

Scribble Ventures

Limited Partner 2022 - Present (over 4 years)

Blank_

Limited Partner 2022 - Present (over 4 years)

MKT1

Limited Partner 2022 - Present (over 4 years)

Maple VC

Limited Partner 2021 - 2022 (about 1 year)

Allstacks

Advisor

KeyWise AI

Advisor 2020 - Present (almost 6 years)

Truv

Advisor 2020 - 2021 (9 months)

Terminal.io

Executive in Residence 2020 - 2021 (3 months)

Exit

Carta

Vice President of Engineering 2019 - 2020 (about 1 year)

Assembled a global team of 80 Engineers through hiring and acquisition across San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Toronto, and Rio de Janeiro. Responsible for the flagship... more

AppDirect

Advisor 2018 - 2019 (2 months)

Vice President of Engineering 2017 - 2018 (over 1 year)

BigCommerce

Advisor 2016 - 2017 (about 1 year)

Senior Vice President of Engineering 2015 - 2016 (over 1 year)

Vice President of Engineering 2014 - 2015 (about 1 year)

Exit

Twitter

Director of Engineering 2012 - 2013 (almost 2 years)

Salesforce

Senior Director, Mergers & Acquisitions 2011 - 2012 (over 1 year)

Senior Director, Engineering 2010 - 2011 (11 months)

Director, Engineering 2008 - 2010 (about 2 years)

Manager, Engineering 2004 - 2008 (almost 4 years)

Employee

Salesforce, Twitter, BigCommerce, AppDirect, Various Startups, Blackhawk Network, Carta, Terminal.io, Maple VC, MKT1, Blank_, Scribble Ventures, GTMfund, Trustly

Advisor

Truv, KeyWise AI, Allstacks

Education

About

Achievements

Led pre-IPO teams at: BigCommerce, Twitter, Salesforce.

PREVIOUS:
• SVP Engineering @Trustly, the global leader in Online Banking Payments.

• VP Engineering @ Carta responsible for its flagship product. Led a global team of Engineers across San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Rio, Waterloo.

• VP Engineering @ AppDirect. Led a global team of 200+ across San Francisco, Montréal, Buenos Aires, and Pune.

• SVP Engineering @ BigCommerce. Scaled the Engineering team from 65 to 130 across San Francisco, Sydney, Austin.

• Director, Engineering @ Twitter from 2012 thru its IPO. Responsible for the Engineering Services teams: Trust & Safety, User Services, Content Management Tools, Platform Intelligence, Open Source Programs, Developer Productivity.

• Joined pre-IPO Salesforce when Eng team was ~36. As Senior Director, responsible for a large portion of the Salesforce Platform. Worked closely with corporate development team (Salesforce Ventures) on mergers & acquisitions.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Agile Enterprise Software Software Management SCRUM Leadership Mergers & Acquisitions Due Diligence TensorFlow Generative AI Neural Networks 3D Graphics LLMs iOS C Transformers Fine Tuning Python OpenGL Artificial Neural Networks Natural Language Processing Bitcoin AI Logistic Regression Recurrent Neural Networks C++

Locations

San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area

Q&A

What's your super power?

I have a genuine thirst for knowledge and learning, whether that be in a technology, a business vertical, or a broader understanding of market dynamics. I've worked in both hardware & software, and across a diverse set of verticals.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

Twitter: @MRP

Ron Pragides

SVP Engineering at @trustly-2 • Former VP Engineering at @eshares • Led pre-IPO teams at: @bigcommerce @twitter @salesforce • Eager to build another great company.