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2023
2023
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.
2020
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
2022 - 2023
2022 - 2023
Building tools to make crypto/web3 more secure and usable. Backed by a16z crypto, First Round Capital and others.
2021 - 2022
2021 - 2022
Reading, learning, exploring, hacking, following my curiosity and writing about it at www.amandhesi.net
2019 - 2021
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
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.
2017 - 2018
Growth and ML for Square Capital
2014 - 2016
2015 - 2016
Helped make Messenger the fastest growing app of 2015 through a combination of acquisition and retention efforts.
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.
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
2013 - 2014
Crowd-sourced language translation startup founded on campus.
2013 - 2013
2013 - 2013
2013 - 2013
2013 - 2013