Ziba Derafshi

Vice President of QA & Support

Ziba leads the QA and Product Support teams at Zumigo. She has over 20 years of experience in software development and engineering management. Prior to Zumigo, Ziba led engineering projects in P2P and A2P messaging for SAP’s messaging platform. She developed software and managed engineering teams at Sybase iSMS messaging service platform, a text messaging service that handled millions of SMS texts daily by providing intercommunication among wireless carriers. Before Sybase, she held various engineering roles in mobile computing and device management applications at startup companies including iAnywhere and AvantGo. Early in her career, she worked as a software engineer in simulation and electronic design automation at Cadence Design Systems. Ziba holds a master of science degree and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and has published several scientific papers in peer reviewed magazines.