whois sumeetv
Hi! I'm an engineer at heart who loves building things, but I've learned that building goes beyond just code. I've found a lot of joy in building teams, organizations, products, and businesses.
Investing
Angel investing is a way for me to ensure my incentives are aligned with founders while going deep on technical and product challenges they are facing. Blending the challenges of technical constraints with real business requirements motivates me more than either individually, and I love finding gaps in the industry and novel opportunities founders have discovered.
When supporting founders, I offer a variety of concrete ways I can help them to avoid the usual song and dance of "let me know how I can be helpful." For any founders interested in chatting, here is a sample of what I can offer.
I can typically provide these quickly over email.
Warm introductions to a network of strong operators with a proven track record
Document templates (e.g. engineering RFC, PRD, product spec)
Planning templates (e.g. annual, quarterly)
Broad engineering archetypes for career growth
These tend to be working sessions or longer async discussions.
Pitch deck runthrough
One-off coaching sessions
Vetting a potential hire / helping with an interview
Giving feedback on a technical approach
Longer term projects for companies I advise.
Developing custom engineering ladders with variable flexiblity and archetypes
Develping a new hiring process for a given role or job family
Collaborating on company strategy, planning, and goals
Iterating on a GTM plan based on consumer feedback and industry trends
Work
Or you can always check out my LinkedIn here.
Crafting
I co-founded Crafting in 2024 after dealing with years of frustrations with my dev environments. Every engineer knows the pain of having to get their workspace up and running, and I have always been driven to maximize my engineers' efficiency. As CEO, I focused on scaling the business while making sure the rest of our engineering team was able to build the best enterprise dev environment possible.
Discord
I first joined Discord when we were about 250 people and exploding in usage and popularity. During 2020, the narrative of Discord shifted from a chat app for gamers to a global communities and communication platform. During my time at Discord, I scaled the Communities and Bots teams, oversaw the acquisition and integration of the Ubiquity6 engineering team, built the creators team from scratch, ran our first AI product organization in collaboration with OpenAI and other major players in the space, and led our efforts to reinvest in gaming by partnering directly with game developers and publishers.
Uber
My time at Uber was split across competition in new markets on our International Growth team, building out enterprise integrations for major car rental agencies, and managing our micromobility efforts during JUMP's explosive growth years. My teams shipped referral tools that solved supply issues around the world, fleet management tools that scaled to more markets than we anticipated, and the core products and firmware integrations needed to power our fleets of bikes and scooters. I also negotiated the technical side of the Lime's acquisition of our hardware and firmware. Having been on the other side of M&A and managing through major layoffs was a painful but educational experience.
Meta
I joined Facebook at time when people were still referring to us as 'Myspace 2.0' while Google+ and Twitter looked like the looming giants in the space. Joining during a company-wide lockdown and seeing what it took to turn the company around after our IPO helped me learn what it takes to truly compete in our industry. I worked on privacy before joining the first iteration of the Public Content team, building tools for celebrities and creators while tackling the challenges of public discourse at scale with ranked and threaded comments. I later helped reboot the Groups product and shipped the first rich React Native integration in a core Facebook app to power a new standalone Groups app.