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Aman Dhesi

Something new

New York, New York

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Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $0.00
  • Max Investment:

    $0.00
  • Target Investment:

    $0.00

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder

    2024

    AI x Real Estate. More soon. We're hiring founding engineers - DM me if you're a driven engineer who wants to work on cutting edge applied AI in a massive industry.

2020

  • Investor

    2020

    A mix of personal, syndicate, and secondary investments Farcaster, OnDeck, Highlight.xyz, Metamap, Meow.co, Sleek (acq SnackPass), Composer, Bandit ML (acq), Scale AI

  • Co-founder/CTO

    2022 - 2024

    Building tools to make crypto/web3 more secure and usable. Backed by a16z crypto, First Round Capital and others.

2021 - 2022

  • Exploring, Writing, Building

    2021 - 2022

    Reading, learning, exploring, hacking, following my curiosity and writing about it at www.amandhesi.net

2019 - 2021

  • Tech Lead, Machine Learning

    2019 - 2021

    DoorDash acquired Caviar from Square in November 2019. Jul 20 - present: Building DoorDash's ads/promotions products and team. Did a little bit of everything: ML-based ranking and forecasting models, email automation systems, product strategy. Nov 19 - Jul 20: Built DoorDash's marketing automation platform from scratch. The system automatically manages/optimizes DoorDash's $XXX M marketing budget. See blog post for more details.

2017 - 2019

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    2018 - 2019

    Led Machine Learning at Caviar, a food delivery service owned by Square. Owned and improved core components of Caviar's logistics systems - dispatch algorithm, ETA predictions, and our first-ever food prep time predictions. Reduced average delivery times by several minutes.

  • Product Manager, ML

    2017 - 2018

    Growth and ML for Square Capital

2014 - 2016

  • Growth PM, Messenger

    2015 - 2016

    Helped make Messenger the fastest growing app of 2015 through a combination of acquisition and retention efforts.

  • Founding PM, Blood Donations

    2015 - 2016

    Started the Facebook Blood Donations product during a company hackathon. Along with an awesome team, designed, built, and conducted user research in our spare time. Today, it is a flagship product of Facebook's social good team.

  • Product Manager

    2014 - 2016

    Conceptualized, designed and launched the prototype for a user safety feature to prevent malicious profile impersonation. Built internal tools to crowd-source language translation data to improve Facebook's translation technology that serves xxxM MAU.

2013 - 2014

  • Co-founder & CTO

    2013 - 2014

    Crowd-sourced language translation startup founded on campus.

2013 - 2013

  • Data Science Engineering Intern

    2013 - 2013

2013 - 2013

  • Engineering Fellow

    2013 - 2013