I am looking for amazing immigrant founders building US companies. Pitch me at http://geek.vc/pitch.Track record: 100+ angel investments over 10 years.I have invested at pre-seed/seed in unicorns: Instacart , PandaDoc, People.ai, Chainalysis, Airbyte, Jeeves.15 exits, including Instacart, Caper, Airbyte, Volumetric, Acquired.io, Sayana, OnSpecta.

Since 2012, I'm investing in early stage startups that solve old problems in new ways. My angel investment profile is at http://angel.co/mahaniok.

Lightning AI (fka Grid AI) builds AI dev tools to make machine learning easy and accessible for everyone. Lightning AI is backed by $58M+ from Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures and Firstminute. See https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/16/grid-ai-rebrands-as-lightning-ai-raises-40m-to-build-ai-dev-tools/As a VP of Engineering, I built the team responsible for grid.ai, necessary processes, engineering culture, and top standards.

Led WeWork Virtual Selling (self serve) & WeWork Referrals projects, 30+ people overall. WeWork Virtual Selling: Crucial project for the company: enabling virtual selling of offices, zero sales touches (first in the industry), on wework.com. Launched in Q4, provided significant top and bottom-line business impact on the company. WeWork Referrals: Technology and B2B portal for real estate brokers. High business impact.

Facebook Local (Recommendations, personalization): - New Facebook Local Exploration product (see https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/08/helping-people-connect-with-local-businesses/). Mobile (iOS + Android), backend, search, ranking, ML. - Local Search within main Facebook Search, across platforms and languages.- Food Ordering on Facebook (https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/19/facebook-utility).Facebook News (Machine Learning):- Classification of public content / news (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/05/more-personalized-experiences/). - News Ranking.

2014-2015: Google Maps "Explore"* Backend & ranking for personalized restaurant recommendations: https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/02/google-maps-adds-curated-restaurant-recommendations-in-nyc-san-francisco-and-london/2013-2014: Doubleclick Bid Manager * Data analysis pipelines that significantly improved performance of video ads by providing better predictions.* Improved targeting capabilities for video ads.* Integration with multiple video ad exchanges.November 2012 - September 2013: Google Maps/Search personalization infrastructure* Building personalization infrastructure for Maps, Search and other products. This infrastructure powers Google Maps: https://maps.googleblog.com/2013/05/meet-new-google-maps-map-for-every.htmlJune 2011 - November 2012: Google Offers.* Ranking, signals, data processing and classification projects.October 2010 - June 2011: Play Store new features * Data analysis, ranking* Launched Related Apps in Dec 2010, Top Apps per country in May 2011.May 2007 - September 2010: Improving search engine ranking algorithm.* Signals analysis, ranking algorithms* Backend systems Algorithm/experimentation/backend work in C++/Python.Various small participation in other Google projects. Among them, improved Google Translate for Belarusian.

I've worked on the electronic document software.Projects included software for electronic document authentication (which included signature, encryption, certificate infrastructure), and firmware for a hardware electronic signing key.Technologies:* C/C99/ARM firmware* C/C++/Delphi Windows software* PHP/C# Web projects