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  "markdown": "Chief Technology Officer, Dropbox.\n\nAli Dasdan has been Chief Technology Officer of Dropbox since March 2025. He previously held engineering and product management leadership roles at technology companies in Silicon Valley and the UK, and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\n\n## What Ali builds\n\n- [Dropbox API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dropbox-api.md), graded B, 68.4/100, in File storage \u0026 sharing. HTTP API v2 for a user's or team's Dropbox, files, folders, upload sessions to about 2 TiB, shared links with passwords and expiry, file requests and change cursors. Chief Technology Officer, Dropbox, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Dropbox Sign](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dropbox-sign.md), graded B, 69/100, in Contracts, proposals \u0026 e-signatures. Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) is Dropbox's e-signature service. Its REST API sends documents or templates for signature, embeds signing in an iframe, reports status by webhook and returns signed PDFs with an audit trail. Chief Technology Officer, Dropbox, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Arash Ferdowsi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arash-ferdowsi/), Co-founder\n- [Ashraf Alkarmi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ashraf-alkarmi/), Co-CEO, Dropbox\n- [Drew Houston](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/drew-houston/), Co-founder and Co-CEO, Dropbox\n- [Mike Torres](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mike-torres/), Chief Product Officer, Dropbox\n- [Neal O'Mara](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/neal-o-mara/), Founder and CTO, HelloSign (now Dropbox Sign)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ali Dasdan?\n\nAli Dasdan has been Chief Technology Officer of Dropbox since March 2025. He previously held engineering and product management leadership roles at technology companies in Silicon Valley and the UK, and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\n\n### What does Dropbox, Dropbox, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Dropbox API + MCP and Dropbox Sign from Dropbox, Dropbox, Inc.. HTTP API v2 for a user's or team's Dropbox, files, folders, upload sessions to about 2 TiB, shared links with passwords and expiry, file requests and change cursors.\n\n### How are Ali's tools graded?\n\nDropbox API + MCP is graded B, 68.4 out of 100; Dropbox Sign is graded B, 69 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.dropbox.com/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewhouston\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketorreshq\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dropbox\n- https://www.dropbox.com/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/dropbox/\n- https://www.dropbox.com/developers\n- https://help.dropbox.com/\n- https://www.dropbox.com/developers/support\n- https://www.dropbox.com/developers/contact\n- https://sign.dropbox.com/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/dropbox\n- https://sign.dropbox.com\n- https://help.dropbox.com/en-us/sign\n- https://www.dropbox.com/support/dropbox-sign-issue\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Houston\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arash_Ferdowsi\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hellosign\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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