Kd Deshpande
Founder & CEO at Simplified
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKd Deshpande is a founder and product-focused executive with 12 years of hands-on experience building consumer and B2B products, now leading Simplified from the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines deep technical roots—early mobile engineering at TuneIn and platform architecture work at Vessel.io—with senior product leadership at Uber, Facebook, and Marketo to scale growth, engagement, and partner ecosystems. As a repeat founder and CEO he has raised venture capital, negotiated an acquisition, and shipped developer-facing SDKs and cloud services that powered mobile marketing and analytics. At Uber he led cross-continental product teams focused on personalization, monetization, and lifecycle win-back, and at Marketo he drove integrations and 0-to-1 mobile marketing products for international expansion. Known for bridging engineering and product with a marketer’s mindset, he favors building self-serve, high-conversion flows and measurable growth loops. Beyond the obvious, he blends startup hustle with enterprise product rigor—comfortable both writing architecture and negotiating M&A.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Arizona State University500 StartupsBE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Github Skills (21)
marketo10
phonegap-plugin10
plugin9
phonegap9
storekit8
sdk7
android7
parse6
in-app-purchase6
django6
android-sdk5
python5
marketing-tools5
marketing-automation4
django-channels4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Marketo/ios-sdk
Apr 2015 - Jul 2016
The Marketo Mobile SDK allows integration with Marketo Mobile Engagement.
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
mobile-sdkin-app-purchasestorekitmarketoandroid
Marketo/PhoneGapPlugin
Oct 2013 - Jul 2016
Marketo Mobile Engagement PhoneGap Plugin
Contributions:27 commits, 15 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 10 months
phonegap-pluginmarketoandroidpluginengagement
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