Dave Pickles

As Chief Technology Officer and founder, Dave Pickles oversees all engineering and technology at The Trade Desk. Pickles has spent his entire career building real-time Internet delivery systems.

At the internet telephony startup CallWave, Inc, he was involved in building all back end components of the system: client session management services, telephone call handling services, customer registration services, B2B integrations with all major telephone carriers, and complex high performance database systems (including a custom billing and CRM system)

In 2007, Pickles joined AdECN, Microsoft’s recent exchange acquisition at the time. He wrote code and led a team that in under seven months built the complete Federated Exchange, enabling real-time bidding.

After release, Microsoft publishing assets slowly ramped production traffic while hardening the system, handling performance testing of 30B daily impressions. With the exchange complete and ready for prime time, Pickles left to help found The Trade Desk and build its platform.

Dave Pickles is the Chief Technology Officer, Founder & Director at The Trade Desk, based in United States, North America. With a background in Information Technology, Dave Pickles has a rich history of leadership and innovation.Dave Pickles studied BS Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.