VP of Engineering
Zendesk
Adrian McDermott leads the Product Management and Engineering teams for Zendesk, a rapidly growing web based help desk software company. Previously he was Chief Technical Officer at Attributor where he managed web crawling and content identification systems for text, video and images. Adrian was the first engineer hired by Plumtree Software and remained with the company through the IPO and subsequent acquisition by BEA. Prior to Plumtree, Adrian worked as an itinerant software consultant in London, Hong Kong, Sydney and Guam. Adrian is a Yorkshireman living in San Francisco.