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Ron Pragides

Investor

Vice President of Engineering at Trustly at PICUS CAPITAL

San Francisco, California

Writes $5K – $50K checks · typically $20K

About

VP of Engineering at Trustly with experience leading pre-IPO engineering teams at Twitter, Salesforce, BigCommerce and Carta. Focus area: software engineering.

Experience

  1. Blackhawk NetworkVice President of Engineeringcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. GTMfundLimited Partnercurrent2021 — present
  3. Various StartupsAdvisor / Investorcurrent2020 — present
  4. TrustlySenior Vice President, Engineering2022 — 2023San Carlos, California, United States
  5. TrustlyVice President of Engineering2021 — 2022San Carlos, California, United States
  6. CartaVice President of Engineering2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  7. AppDirectAdvisor2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  8. AppDirectVice President of Engineering2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  9. BigCommerceAdvisor2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
  10. BigCommerceSenior Vice President of Engineering2015 — 2016San Francisco, California
  11. BigCommerceVice President of Engineering2014 — 2015San Francisco, California
  12. TwitterDirector of Engineering2012 — 2014San Francisco, California
  13. SalesforceSenior Director, Mergers & Acquisitions2011 — 2012San Francisco, California
  14. SalesforceSenior Director, Engineering2010 — 2011San Francisco, California
  15. SalesforceDirector, Software Engineering2008 — 2010San Francisco, California
  16. SalesforceManager, Software Engineering2004 — 2008San Francisco, California
  17. CBCAEngineering Manager2001 — 2004San Francisco Bay Area
  18. WeddingChannel.com (acquired by XO Group, Inc.)Manager, Application Development1999 — 2001San Francisco, California
  19. Rendition, Inc. (acquired by Micron Technology, Inc.)Senior Software Engineer1998 — 1999San Francisco Bay Area
  20. Sun MicrosystemsMember of Technical Staff, Graphics & Imaging1995 — 1998San Francisco Bay Area
  21. Texas InstrumentsSoftware Design Engineer, Digital Imaging Venture Projects1992 — 1995Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Skills & more

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)1LangChain1AI Agents2Fine TuningDue Diligence1M&A Due DiligenceArtificial Neural NetworksMachine LearningFinanceConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)TransformersRecurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
+12 moreNatural Language Processing (NLP)Logistic RegressionBehavioral FinanceFinancial MarketsBehavioral EconomicsGenerative AILarge Language Models (LLM)TensorFlowPython (Programming Language)Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSalesforce.com
  • Building RAG Agents with LLMsNVIDIA
  • Getting Started with Deep LearningNVIDIA
  • Deep Learning SpecializationDeepLearning.AI
  • Sequence ModelsDeepLearning.AI
  • Convolutional Neural NetworksDeepLearning.AI
  • Structuring Machine Learning ProjectsDeepLearning.AI
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and OptimizationDeepLearning.AI
  • Neural Networks and Deep LearningDeepLearning.AI
  • Introduction to AI in the Data CenterNVIDIA
  • Generative AI with Large Language ModelsDeepLearning.AI

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Ron Pragides?
VP of Engineering at Trustly with experience leading pre-IPO engineering teams at Twitter, Salesforce, BigCommerce and Carta. Focus area: software engineering.
Where does Ron Pragides work?
Ron Pragides is Vice President of Engineering at Trustly at PICUS CAPITAL.
What check size does Ron Pragides write?
Ron Pragides typically writes checks of $5K – $50K.
Where did Ron Pragides go to school?
Ron Pragides studied at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (Certificate of Business Excellence (COBE), Executive Education); Stanford University (Studies in Computer Graphics); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS, Electrical Engineering).

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