Sameen
Intrepid Engineer
creative & effective
I'm a technical, social and creative engineer, operator and investor who loves solving challenging problems to progress humanity forward.
From 2010 - 2023 I worked at big companies, founded and worked at small startups, built and managed teams internationally, traveled frequently, and technically consulted, advised and invested in companies.
Through it all, I always tried to push the boundaries with passion for entrepreneurship.
Artificial Intelligence @ Scale
As the Venture Partner of Republic and Partner at Performance Ventures, I am joining the AI revolution to do my part to ensure a long-term positive impact. Our investment portfolio is made up of companies that work on AI explainability, safety and accessibility and we especially look for strong and diverse teams.
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Artificial Intelligence @ Scale
I'm the Engineering Director at Autonomous Vehicle company called Wayve using end-to-end Deep Learning to drive in dense urban environments. Competing with the likes of Tesla and Waymo, Wayve is making huge positive strides with an innovative approach, a strong team and knowledgeable allies. Building a foundation in Robotics and Machine Learning at scale with regard for safety and security.
As the Venture Partner of Republic and Partner at Performance Ventures, I am joining the AI revolution to do my part to ensure a long-term positive impact. Our investment portfolio is made up of companies that work on AI explainability, safety and accessibility and we especially look for strong and diverse teams.
Wayve - London, UK
Director of Engineering
Leading the autonomous driving company through a period of hypergrowth.
Facebook London, UK
Engineering Lead of Privacy and Integrity
Led infrastructure teams and built systems at scale to uphold Facebook's diverse and distributed community standards to keep user data private and secure for 3+ billion people.
Facebook London, UK
Engineering Lead of Software Maturity Platform
Enabled reliability, observability, resiliency and more automation of Facebook's systems.
Facebook London, UK
Technical Lead of Security and Detection
Seeded Facebook's global Security teams and built a distributed command execution engine to configure, coordinate and manage Facebook's massive server fleet.
Facebook Menlo Park, CA
Senior Production Engineer
Brought together Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp's backend infrastructure in a multi-year and multi-organization massive migration event saving hundreds of jobs. Merged together the largest social graphs on the internet.
Facebook Menlo Park, CA
Senior Production Engineer
Led Reliability, Containerization and Configuration Management efforts for Facebook's core data serving systems.
Google Mountain View, CA
Software Engineer Intern
Built beautiful and efficient UIs for Google AdWords.
Dream4TK
Founder and Rider
Rode a bike 3000km from New Jersey to Florida to raise money to fight cancer.
Rutgers - Hack RU
Founder, Hacker, Student
Founded one of the largest hackathons in the United States while studying Computer Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
