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.

Rian Hunter

Engineer

Rian joined Dropbox fresh out of MIT and couldn't be happier. In his spare time he gets annoyed when people complain about the difficulty of writing witty blurbs about themselves. Just don't overthink it and be yourself. His favorite video game is Yoshi's Island.

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.

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 Engineer

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.

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.

Kevin Chu

Support Engineer

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.

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.

Teresa Kenny

Office Team

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.

Scott Loganbill

Technical Writer

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

Dan Wheeler

Engineer

World's finest talking redwood tree.

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.

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.

Graham Abbott

Support Engineer

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 D'sa

Sales

Sales Ninja

Karen Sperling

Recruiter

If you want to work here, you should probably let her know.

Ivan Kirigin

Product Manager

Ivan is probably ready for the zombie apocalypse.

Max Bélanger

Engineer

Max is a Canadian Software Engineering student and future ninja. Currently in exile at Dropbox from Ottawa, he works on the Dropbox client and on trying to convert people to Hockey. He enjoys long walks on the beach, provided there's some measure of programming involved. He also loves Canadian indie rock bands (The New Pornographers) and Indian food. When he grows up, he wants to be lumberjack. Because they're cool.

Todd Dabney

Support Engineer

The legend of Todd is thus.

Jen Beatty

Recruiter

Jen graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in history. When she's not coding in Python, she enjoys traveling, cooking, entertaining, and daydreaming of becoming Indiana Jones.

Nikrad Mahdi

Support Engineer

Nikrad graduated from Oberlin College and works on the support team. When he's not at Dropbox, he's usually exploring San Francisco's streets on his bike or listening to Radiolab.

Steve Bartel

Engineer

Steve joins the ranks of MIT graduates at Dropbox. When he isn't programming for the Growth/Analytics team, Steve spends his time worker rushing in the StarCraft II bronze league.

Greg Kurtz

Support Engineer

Greg was born in the forgotten NYC borough: Staten Island. Upon escaping, he went to JHU in Baltimore to study Biomedical Engineering. Four years later, he changed his mind. After graduating he moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in the tech industry. In his spare time he likes programming (mostly) useless things.

Marshall Kurtz

Support Engineer

Marshall joins the Dropbox support team after rapidly moving from Philadelphia, where he and his wife Kristen have lived for the past few years. Marshall's prior work experience includes multiple roles at Microsoft and AT&T, as well as a Philadelphia-based SharePoint consulting firm. He graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA with a BS in Business Information Systems and Marketing.

Jeff Bartelma

Product Manager

Jeff joins from a small search company in Mountain View. Previously he studied, quite a lot really, at MIT. Jeff enjoys reading self-introductions written in the third person and holds a lifelong interest in shiny objects and other novel stimuli, if only for a moment.

Martin Baker

Engineer

When not wrestling code, Martin is an avid reader. He also enjoys buying homemade CDs from strangers on the street and visiting Atlanta, Iceland.

David Dold

Account Manager

All lives made complete
Files synced like fields in bloom
Love grows for Dropbox

Ryan M.

Support Engineer

Ryan comes from Montana with a bachelors degree in mathematics and Spanish. ¡Sí se puede!

Joe Gross

Engineer

Joe is root@dropbox.com. He's made things go at Google and YouTube, and while he's not from MIT, we don't hold that against him.

Sujay Jaswa

Biz Dev

Sujay Jaswa worked at a VC firm for a long time before growing jealous of the people at Dropbox. If you can't beat them, join them. Am I right? He spends his free time daydreaming about MIT.

Nancy Tcheou

Office Team

An Alaskan at heart, Nancy graduated from UC Davis and got a job in a science research lab thinking it was the life for her. One year later, she changed her mind and now is pursuing some sort of future in the tech industry. During her free time she likes to look at pictures of Scottish Fold kittens.

Darren Yin

Engineer

Following in the footsteps of many other Dropboxers, Darren Yin put his MIT (Masters) degree on hold and now devotes his time to avoiding basketball injuries. Oh, and analytics.

ChenLi Wang

Biz Dev

ChenLi has worked in investment banking, VC, and enterprise software. He recently discovered his CS degree from Stanford, and is taking night classes on snakes (what's python?)

Stefano Cayre

Support Engineer

Stefano graduated from Politecnico di Torino but decided that the climate was way better in California and thus joined the Dropbox tech support team. When he's not slaying tickets, he can be found scouring the city for junk food, lost in meditation at Starbucks, or partying.

Brandi Cheek

Executive Asst.

WHO DAT‽

Melissa Baldauf

Sales

Melissa works on the sales team. When she's not closing deals, she's obsessing over the latest restaurant opening or the first sighting of fava beans at the farmers market. She tries to keep things in balance with ballet, yoga, and long hikes in Point Reyes.

Alex Sydell

Engineer

Alex is a UC Berkeley grad now working on the Android app. When not hacking, he can usually be found climbing, watching a hockey game, or exploring San Francisco.

Gautam J.

Engineer

Gautam is an MIT grad who has moved across the country three times in the past eight years. He hopes Dropbox will develop teleportation to make moves like this easier.

Ben Darnell

Engineer

Ben joins Dropbox from Google, Facebook, and AOL. When he's not coding, he enjoys food and travel.

Lars Nielsen

Biz Dev

According to our spies, Lars is the result of a lab accident at MIT. The explosion resulted in a genetic soup consisting of Danish, Portuguese, and Viking DNA that, when fully gestated, became our mobile business development evangelist.

Sander Lewis

Support Engineer

Sander is a native Californian and UCLA graduate. He speaks a bunch of languages and likes to test other people who claim fluency too. When he's not at the office, he's probably in some random foreign country.

Sean Byrne

Support Engineer

C.S. + kayaking + The Daily Show + Coca Cola = Sean

Alison Davis

Recruiter

Alison graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Economics. When she's not recruiting new Dropboxers, she enjoys running, exploring the many restaurants of San Francisco, and cheering on the Cal Bears.

Tony Grue

Engineer

Tony is yet another MIT grad, though he spent a couple years coding in Seattle before heading to Dropbox. He loves good code, good food, and good weather; and thus knows Dropbox, San Francisco, and California are a perfect trifecta.

Amir Oren

Finance

Amir worked at various high-tech companies in the Bay Area as a corporate controller before joining Dropbox. When taking a break from counting beans, he spends his time swimming, a little bit of clubbing, and improving his poor guitar playing.

Chris V.

Engineer

Chris (another MIT grad of course) started at Dropbox four days after handing his thesis in. He likes blowing glass and keeping tabs on his eight younger siblings.

Todd E.

Engineer

Todd is a CMU grad working on the servers. When not coding, he likes to travel, read, and pick up random hobbies.

Yi Wei

Designer

Yi graduated from Cornell University and used to be a designer at El Goog. When not designing, he enjoys playing ultimate, taking photos, and hiking.

Jie Tang

Engineer

When he's not hacking away on the Dropbox client, Jie enjoys playing ultimate, ping pong, and basketball. His greatest fear is earthquakes.

Ramsey H.

Legal

Ramsey (the first Rutgers grad at Dropbox?) abandoned engineering on the east coast for law on the west coast. He previously worked at a law firm and Jeff's little search company. In his spare time he is developing an application that stores great food in his Dropbox so that he can sync it across his life and access it from anywhere.

David Stein

Engineer

David (MIT. yada, yada...) started at Dropbox. He came to Dropbox before turning in his Master's thesis. Take that, Chris!

Kannan G.

Engineer

Kannan comes to us from a series of inconsequential places. He likes climbing trees, Norm Macdonald, static typing, and nothing else.

Zviad Metreveli

Engineer

Zviad came to the US from the faraway land of Georgia (the country, not the state) to study at MIT. "After finishing Master's degree, I joined Dropbox to fulfill dream of working for technology start-up in big country of America," wrote Zviad. "My next goal is to one day be able to correctly use articles while writing text in English."

Marcus Collins

Sales

Busy converting leads.

Alicia Chen

Engineer

Alicia comes to Dropbox from Stanford by way of Microsoft. For fun, she reads books of little literary value and obsesses about knitting and cats, sometimes even all at the same time.

Sean Li

Support Engineer

Sean came from Rutgers to Dropbox with a brief stay at Verizon in between. In his free time, he enjoys fencing (foil and épée), science-fiction, and designing video games. If Dropbox ever has an office in London, New Zealand, or on the moon, he'd be delighted to go.

Bobby Sae Bae

Finance

Bobby loves food like Bubba Gump loves shrimp. Beyond gastronomy, she also enjoys other things like cooking, baking, and taking pictures of food.

Kyle Parrish

Sales

Kyle is focused on selling Dropbox for Teams to companies of all sizes. When not bringing on new accounts, he spends all of his time hiking, biking, and surfing around the Bay Area. He also likes traveling and trying out all the awesome restaurants in SF.

Makinde A.

Engineer

After a successful career at MIT, Makinde was drafted in the second round by Facebook in 2007. Four years later, Dropbox signed him as a free agent. He plays with the big three on the web team.

Armando Mann

Sales

Armando is obsessed with finding technology that small business owners love. After running his own small business for many years, he joined Google to help launch a bunch of products for local businesses. When he is not imagining every company using Dropbox for Teams, he can be found hanging out at local parks with his wife and daughter.

Adam Taylor

Support Engineer

Adam comes from good old New Jersey and Rutgers University. After attending Johnson and Wales for Culinary arts, he took an interest in Information Technology at Rutgers. His hobbies include cooking amazing meals (like mac and cheese) and rolling n00bs in Halo, but his heart will always belong to the slopes and finding the freshest powder available.

Tina Wen

Engineer

Before starting her adventure at Dropbox, Tina developed new features for Mac Office at Microsoft, where she worked for two years after graduating from MIT. She loves baking, playing ultimate frisbee, Zumba, and Dance Central on Kinect!

Bart Volkmer

Legal

Bart works in Dropbox's legal department. Before joining the Dropbox team, Bart practiced IP law at a Palo Alto firm. He enjoys hiking with his wife, following Nebraska football, and unlearning constellations.

Leah Bent

Recruiter

Leah spends her weekdays scouring the globe for the best and brightest people to join the Dropbox team. She's got a soft spot for kittens, and enjoys putting hundreds of miles on her road bike to make up for her Taco Bell addiction.

Mitra L.

Biz Dev

Mitra went to MIT, though she never was an RA there. She loves puns, tape dispensers, and the serial comma.

Ilya Fushman

Biz Dev

Ilya built quantum computers at Stanford and Caltech, spent some time making the world's most efficient solar cell, and took a turn in venture capital, but he always knew cloud storage and sync were the obvious next step. Now he's working on getting more people into Dropbox and more Dropbox into people's lives.

Annie Zhou

Account Manager

Annie is your typical indecisive Libra. She couldn't decide between Computer Science, Business Economics, and Music so she majored in all of them. Other times, she enjoys eating, sleeping, and building card houses.

Rich Chan

Engineer

Rich is (yet another) Masters grad from MIT. Staying true to his Hong Kong roots, there is a good chance he can be found waiting in line for pastry at the Golden Gate Bakery.

Rajeev Nayak

Engineer

Rajeev has spent his entire life making sure he would fit in at Dropbox. He went to MIT, worked at Google, and learned how to play ping-pong, basketball, and even Starcraft. Now that he's actually here, he has no idea what to do with himself anymore.

Tony Huie

Biz Dev

After tours in consulting and VC, Tony finally saw the light and joined Dropbox. Tony likes traveling, cooking, and basketball.

Greg Walder

Sales

Greg is competing with Kyle for the title of tallest person on team sales, but there's no contest when the battle is brought to the basketball court.

Naveen Agrawal

Sales

Naveen joins us after turning down a career as a professional bocce ball player. He studied at Stanford, where he first learned the lost art of wordsmithing. He's excited to sell the hell out of Dropbox.

Seth Cole-Rose

IT Engineer

Seth is another representative from the great state of Montana. He is tasked with saving the day one IT issue at a time. When not wearing his IT hat, he enjoys camping, snowboarding, and pretty much anything outdoors.

Allison Louie

Recruiter

Allison hails from Sacramento and is a graduate of UC Berkeley. Beyond recruiting, she enjoys cheering for the Niners, befriending other people's dogs, and inserting Jack Handey quotes into her everyday conversations.

Aseem Sood

Product Manager

Aseem was well on his way to become a professional bum when he came across Dropbox. They gave him a nice home and promised unlimited ping pong games. It was a match made in heaven. Also, they said they have free food.

Donald James

Recruiter

Donald comes to Dropbox by way of Zynga. Prior to that, he cut his technical recruiting teeth having worked for various contingency-based staffing agencies in the Los Angeles area. When he's not focused on sourcing passive Engineering candidates, he loves to play basketball, snowboard, watch MMA, and make beats in FL Studio. He's a big fan of self-deprecating humor, and runs on Dunkaroos, Sour Patch Kids, and Gatorade.

Pierpaolo B.

Engineer

Pier got his PhD from Milan, Italy before moving to Stanford. Some people say he has an accent. Before Dropbox, he played hard (and sometimes worked) at OnLive helping to make it possible to play video games over the Internet. He likes watching movies, hiking (sometimes) and having dinner with friends (a lot).

Ramesh B.

Engineer

Ramesh helps bolster the meager ranks of gray-haired individuals at Dropbox. Bucking the trend in prescient fashion, he attended school on the true "right" (i.e. correct) coast before joining the rest of his class at Google where he tinkered around with Maps for a very long time. When not playing some form of sport, he can be found with a furrow on his forehead and a far-off look in his eyes - ostensibly thinking deep thoughts.

Kyle Consalus

Engineer

Kyle hails from the glorious Midwest, but finds the Bay Area to be a suitable substitute for now. He likes eating, hates sleeping, and loves bipedal locomotion. When he's not working, he likes to spend his time trying to get away with doing things that look remarkably like working.

Anna Liu

Account Manager

Originally from Michigan, Anna graduated from Harvard and worked at Google before making her way to Dropbox. Now she spends her free time playing ultimate frisbee, dancing, and taking photos.

Brad Silicani

Finance

This is Brad. Brad didn't graduate from MIT, opting instead for the 11-time football champion USC Trojans (That's right, 11). Don't be fooled though, he's still a nerd. He has a Masters in Accounting, and when he's not spending time watching Giants baseball, he can be found crunching the numbers for Dropbox.

Sam Taylor

Sales

Sam was strategically recruited to play forward on the Dropbox basketball team. Now that he's here, he may as well sell Dropbox for Teams in his free time between games.

Ben Coggins

Sales

Ben is a native Northern Californian that received his BA in Economics and Chinese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has previously worked at SAP and BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO platform. While he loves being a software salesman, he is also mildly obsessed with basketball, silent discos, and hot sauce popcorn.

Chris Barton

Biz Dev

Chris loves to dream about product strategy even though he is a Biz Dev guy. He has spent years in mobile ever since SMS was considered an advanced data experience. He came to us from the Android team and clearly loves his Android phones, especially if they have Shazam and Dropbox on them!

Jennifer Glass

Communications

Jennifer has held senior communications positions at Holiday Inn, Intuit, Oracle, and Sony. She has lived and worked in Japan and Hong Kong and backpacked extensively throughout Asia and Latin America. Jennifer has studied and performed improv, and has a particular penchant for improvising Broadway-style songs.

Emily Zhao

Biz Dev

Emily took her last final at MIT and moved to SF the next day to join Dropbox. This will be updated when she figures out what she's doing.

Janet Chung

Admin Asst.

Janet was a Psych major at UCLA, so yes, she can read your mind. When she's not doing that, she's eating... a little too much, unfortunately. But it's ok, because her diet starts tomorrow. In her free time, she's learning languages, beating people at Tekken 3 and teaching herself how to dougie.

Anna Bofa

Sales

Anna likes to solve problems. She was working at Google but she really wanted a Dropbox hoodie. She couldn't find any on eBay so she just joined the company instead. Problem solved.

Glara Ahn

Office Team

After graduating from MIT and working at JPMorgan, Glara made her move from NYC to join Dropbox and to discover her inner Californian.

Chris Beckmann

Product Manager

After years on frozen prairie plains of the midwest, Chris came west seeking better weather at UC Berkeley. Stints at companies small and large led Chris to Dropbox and their impressive supplies of Moleskines and Starbucks Via. When not caffeinating, you can find Chris eating or cycling (and occasionally both).

Whitney Naquin

Admin Asst.

Whitney is basically a stereotype. Her interests include cats, royal weddings, and every Taylor Swift song. She just happens to work at Dropbox too.

Panda

Engineer

Panda joins us from Sichuan University. When not coding, she enjoys wrestling and bamboo. Panda is a proud supporter of the WWF.