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About Dropbox

Dropbox was founded by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007, and received seed funding from Y Combinator. Today, Dropbox is well-funded by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Amidzad. Since launching publicly in September of 2008, we've attracted millions of users and are growing rapidly. We've been featured in the New York Times and on TechCrunch, and have won awards from places like PC Magazine and CNET.

Our passion is making a product that rocks and putting it in millions of people's hands.

If you're interested in joining us, we're looking for more talented people to join the Dropbox team, so be sure to check out our jobs page.

Drew Houston

Founder/CEO

Drew graduated from MIT and wrote the first lines of code for Dropbox while at a train station in Boston. These days he's usually out and about running Dropbox's business affairs, but he still contributes a lot to Dropbox's client software. In the little free time he has, Drew can be found jamming on his guitar.

Arash Ferdowsi

Founder/CTO

Arash took a break from MIT to work on Dropbox. He has his hand involved in every aspect of the product, but spends most of his time making sure Dropbox and its servers run as fast as possible. He's a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs, DDR, and power ballads.

Aston Motes

Engineer

Aston's an engineer on the web site side of Dropbox. After graduating from MIT a couple years ago, he jumped right into the world of startups and hasn't looked back since. In rare moments of free time, you can find Aston rockin' out on the drumset in Dropbox's office.

Jon Ying

Designer

Jon, a native Kansan, graduated from UC San Diego and currently does design work for Dropbox. In addition to his work on the web, Jon also draws the pictures you see on the site. In his free time, he likes writing music, playing DDR and cooking.

Rajiv Eranki

Engineer

Rajiv was short of grabbing his Master's at MIT, but joined Dropbox to help Arash work on the server. When Rajiv's not working, you can find him at the track on his motorcycle. He's also the company's designated Rock Band drummer.

Rian Hunter

Engineer

Rian joined Dropbox fresh out of MIT and has been loving the ride. He works on the client and spends his time making sure Dropbox syncs everything correctly and efficiently. In his spare time he likes to write love songs and is currently struggling reproducing the Rutherford experiment. Something about alchemy.

Mike Haimes

Engineer

Mike's put his MIT education temporarily on hold to make the Dropbox client work seamlessly on all of your computers. When not working, he's probably making noise music, in search of strange cuisine, or complaining that San Francisco is way less fun than NYC.

Albert Ni

Engineer

Albert graduated from MIT and currently does analytics for Dropbox. In his free time, he likes going to Shalimar, a restaurant near the Dropbox office. He's also a devoted fan of the Chicago Cubs, Bulls, and Bears.

Trevor Berg

Engineer

Trevor made this page and others like it.

Michael Nagy

Support

Michael is a graduate of Wayne State University. He does support, and other randomly assigned tasks for the team. When not slaying support tickets at Dropbox, Michael can be found teaching computer courses in Michigan.

Will Stockwell

Engineer

Will also graduated from MIT and works on mobile apps and the API for Dropbox. You may know him as the author of our iPhone app. Will's a huge music buff; his favorite genres include Future Blap, Tropical Crunk ...and Easy Listening.

Andrea Smith

Support Lead

Andrea is the lead support lady for Dropbox, and when she's not helping you, she can be found playing video games, reading, or tooling around San Francisco, pretending to be a tourist.

Kevin M.

Engineer

Kevin, deciding to follow the trend, also got a CS degree from MIT. When not helping work on the Dropbox servers, he likes to pretend that he knows about photography and guitar by carrying around the respective equipment.

Teresa Kenny

Office Manager

Teresa graduated from UC Davis in 2005 and currently resides in the Mission District. As Office Manager, she makes sure everyone at Dropbox is happy, healthy, and paid. Outside of Dropbox, she volunteers for a local music festival and a used book store. Also, she loves Excel.

David Euresti

Engineer

David is yet another MIT grad. But since he graduated in '01, his undergrad career didn't overlap with any other Dropboxer here. In his spare time David likes to do theatre, play music, and find new hobbies.

Kevin Chu

Support

On a good day Kevin can spell MIT, but he graduated from UC Davis. His main claim to fame is being copy and pasted into the Special Edition of Star Wars. When not busy helping people, he plays drums and ice hockey, but not at the same time.

Ross Cohen

Engineer

Ross is also a coder. That is all.

Scott Loganbill

Technical Writer

Scott is Dropbox's Technical Writer. When he's not at work obsessively monitoring help center voting results, he attempts to articulate technology to his infant by way of wild gesticulation.

Adam Gross

SVP Sales/Mktg

Adam comes to Dropbox from salesforce.com, where he was VP Platform and Developer Marketing, and previously co-founded Personify, one of the first web analytics companies. A proud Carnegie Mellon alum, Adam spends part of his time at Dropbox educating the team on the benefits of the Steelers over the Patriots.

Tom Meyer

Engineer

Tom used to spend a lot of time working on things like 3D user interfaces, new types of interactive advertising, and modifying audio and video codecs. He now spends his days playing his Electric Ukulele and making the Dropbox client for Android a thing of beauty and joy.

Dan Wheeler

Engineer

World's finest talking redwood tree.

N.N.

Support

Usually found spending his time racking his brains figuring out ways to help people, pondering about some piece of code or 42.

Tom Hoover

Engineer

Tom also graduated from MIT and is working on the client team. When he's not coding, he can probably be found brewing, learning new culinary skills, or enjoying the fruits of his labor.

Brian Smith

Engineer

Brian graduated from the University of Illinois and works on the iPhone and iPad versions of Dropbox. He should not be confused with the celebrity photographer, linebacker, or jazz saxophonist.

Colin Corbett

Net Engineer

Colin is networking and operations. He comes to Dropbox from Google where he set up network and datacenters for YouTube. Prior to that, it was eBay and PayPal. When not working at the datacenter, Colin can be found cheering on the Sharks.

Graham Abbott

Support

This is Graham. Graham works on the support team. When he's not working he's usually thinking up fun projects that he doesn't have time for.

Cailen Dsa

Sales

Sales Ninja

Betty Kayton

CFO

Betty has over 20 years of experience as a CFO for numerous tech startups and helps keep Dropbox's finances in check.