Prior to founding PROLIFIC in 1995, he managed the Library and Full-Chip Integration Group for the Sun Microsystems UltraSparc and UltraSparc-II product lines.

Under de Dood's leadership, PROLIFIC has been profitable every year of its existence, and has become the leading provider of standard-cell layout creation software.

de Dood holds Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech.