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Aman Dhesi
Founder of Village Computing
New York, New York
Overview
Aman Dhesi is currently serving as the Co-Founder at Village Computing, specializing in turning unstructured data into structured information. With a background including roles at top companies like Facebook, Square, and DoorDash, Aman has demonstrated expertise in machine learning, product management, and engineering, making significant contributions to the tech industry throughout their career.
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2023 - Current
We're helping companies perform unstructured to structured data transformation faster, cheaper and more accurately with LLMs. Usually, this is data extraction or classification, but our techniques are applicable to many types of structured data problems. In the process we're developing open-source software to help other developers do the same. Backed by a16z, First Round, Gokul Rajaram, Dylan Field, and others.
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 - 2023
Building tools to make crypto/web3 more secure and usable. Backed by a16z crypto, First Round Capital and others.
Stelo Labs is a web3 security firm.
Raised $6,000,000.00 from Xoogler, Dylan Field, Dan Romero, First Round Capital, Gokul Rajaram, Lenny Rachitsky, Homebrew, Chainforest, Pear VC and Louis Beryl.
Exploring, Writing, Building
2021 - 2022
Reading, learning, exploring, hacking, following my curiosity and writing about it at www.amandhesi.net
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.
DoorDash is a food delivery platform that connects customers with local and national businesses.
Raised $2,471,820,000.00 from Durable Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, T. Rowe Price and Fidelity.
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
Square is a software company that designs and develops omnichannel solutions.
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.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Co-founder & CTO
2013 - 2014
Crowd-sourced language translation startup founded on campus.
Data Science Engineering Intern
2013 - 2013
Drawbridge uses large-scale AI and machine learning technology to build Identity solutions that connect, unify, & enhance customer data.
Raised $68,740,000.00 from Northgate Capital, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins.
Engineering Fellow
2013 - 2013
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Education
PhD, dropped out
2012 - 2013
Masters
2010 - 2012
Bachelors
2006 - 2010