Jeff Adler
Building AI-native engineering orgs at Dropbox.
About
Jeff Adler is Director of Engineering at Dropbox, where he leads the AI Experiences and Sync engineering orgs and owns Dash, Dropbox's AI-powered universal search product. He has 12+ years building and scaling platforms at Google, Reddit, and Dropbox, specializing in AI products, LLMs, agentic engineering, and iOS architecture. He is based in Denver, CO.
Experience
- Director of Engineering, Dropbox (2025-Present) -- Leads the AI Experiences and Sync engineering orgs building Dash, Dropbox's AI-powered universal search. Drives agentic development practices with heavy AI-assisted code generation using Claude and LLMs.
- Senior Engineering Manager, Dropbox (2023-2025) -- Built and scaled the Dash engineering team from zero to one, growing Dropbox's AI universal search to $1M ARR across 300K+ enterprise accounts.
- Staff Software Engineer, Reddit (2021-2023) -- iOS platform tech lead for a 100+ engineer organization. Built the SliceKit presentation framework and media infrastructure.
- Staff Software Engineer, Dropbox (2019-2021) -- Led HelloSign Mobile, Dropbox Scan, File Transfers, and Family Plan. Built mobile architectures at scale.
- Senior Software Engineer, Google (2016-2019) -- Technical lead for Google Drive iOS. Led the Material Design 2 redesign and on-device ML integration for Google Search iOS.
- Software Engineer, TrackVia & Maptext (2014-2016) -- Built iOS apps including mPilot IFR navigation used by major airlines.
Education
Rutgers University, B.S. Computer & Electrical Engineering, Minor in CS.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Claude / Anthropic, Agentic Engineering, Agentic Orchestration, AI Agents, Machine Learning, iOS Architecture, Mobile Architecture, Engineering Leadership, Team Scaling
Writing
- Adopt the Agent. Build the Loop.
- The Manager Layer is Next
- Tokenmaxxing Is What Happens When You Measure Wrong
- Relaunching This Blog for the AI Era
- The Year the Agent Stopped Being a Demo
- AI Is Redefining What \"Senior Engineer\" Means
Topics: Agentic Engineering | Engineering Leadership | iOS Architecture at Scale