Loveneesh Dhir — CEO

TL;DR: A passionate guy scaling startups with the power of people aka Communities! Being passionate about innovation and communities, and working on new ideas, products, and challenges, I am a community builder at heart. I am motivated to constantly learn, grow my skillset, and create an impact by empowering people to achieve more. I am on a mission to create a more equitable and innovation-driven world, firmly believing that decentralized technologies like Ethereum can revolutionize how we exchange value and information. This shift towards a democratized system can foster a robust internet of value, reduce economic disparities, and establish fair and transparent systems globally, particularly in today's complex geopolitical landscape. I have a strong passion for Web3 and AI, particularly their impact in multiple industries, despite being an engineer by education, more by chance than by choice as I am not particularly fond of coding. My experience spans helping multiple startups with community development, managing developer relations, program management, and formulating go-to-market (GTM) and product growth strategies. My primary aim is to support developers by collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. Through my work, I have positively impacted a diverse group of developers, consumers, and creators worldwide, both within and beyond the blockchain space. This has enabled me to build strong relationships with various stakeholders, including founders, core developers, VCs, product and developers, and bd professionals across different sectors. Always looking forward to interact with creators, thinkers, and tech enthusiasts chasing their dreams. We're mostly into technology, seeing it as our sanctuary to brainstorm and bring our ideas to life. Wanna have a chat❓ You can reach out to me at – dhirloveneesh@gmail.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/LoveneeshDhir

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Blockchain Community Builder with expertise in developer relations and strategic partnerships.

Location: Delhi, India

Experience: 4 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Strategic Partnerships
Go-to-market Strategy
Community Development
Event Management
Community Marketing
Community Building
Developer Relations
Program Management

Career Highlights

Expert in community building and developer relations.
Proven track record in launching successful blockchain initiatives.
Strong strategic partnerships with key industry stakeholders.

Work Experience

Union Labs

Head of Ecosystem (1 yr 7 mos)

Shardeum

Community Lead (1 yr 7 mos)

Contributor (4 mos)

Hashed Emergent

Growth: Ecosystem & Communities (3 mos)

OG Club DAO

Core Contributor (Acquired by Brinc VC) (3 yrs 5 mos)

Gitopia

Developer Relations (7 mos)

TalentSprint

Community & Growth Counsultant(For TSWE 2021) (1 mo)

Commudle

Program Manager (1 yr)

InterviewBit

Community Growth Intern (3 mos)

Sapio Analytics

Data Analyst Intern (1 mo)

Gurugram Police

Cyber Security Summer Intern (1 mo)

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA at Liverpool John Moores University

Startup School: Entrepreneurship at Y Combinator

Bachelor of Technology at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

Senior Secondary Education at Nutan Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School

Loveneesh Dhir

CEO

Delhi, India4 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in community building and developer relations.
Proven track record in launching successful blockchain initiatives.
Strong strategic partnerships with key industry stakeholders.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Blockchain Community Builder with expertise in developer relations and strategic partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic PartnershipsGo-to-market StrategyCommunity DevelopmentEvent ManagementCommunity MarketingCommunity BuildingDeveloper RelationsProgram Management

Other Skills

Brand AwarenessBrandingCampaign StrategiesCommunity EngagementCommunity ManagementContent CreationContent StrategyDeveloper MarketingDigital MarketingEmail MarketingEvent PlanningGrowth StrategiesLeadershipMarketing StrategyMicrosoft Office

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Experience

Union labs

Head of Ecosystem

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Launched Union fellowship program, a 4 week program enabling builders to build on top of Union, onboarded 8 teams and 2 teams got incubation commitment.
Launched U-Combinator a 9 week incubator, where 50 teams compete by creating and refining their MVPs, with the Top 10 teams securing spots in the second cohort of Union Fellowship.
Hosted monthly community calls with 25k+ attendees a month.
Launched an in-house Quest platform and onboarded 50k users in 24 hours. And a total of 150k users reulting in getting 3x transactions on the new testnet compared to the pervious version in just 3 days.
Planned and coordinated the largest Groth16 Zero-Knowledge setup ceremony to date, engaging 5,500+ contributors globally.
Established strategic partnerships with key stakeholders, including other blockchain projects like Aptos, Supra, Movement Labs, Polygon, Citrea, developers, investors, and KOLs.
Launched 2 NFT collections ZK Goblin Mode and Wandering Whale Sharks to incentivise early contributors to build hype.
Attended conferences, meetups, and hackathons to promote Union.
Gathered feedback from partners, users, and the community to inform product development and improvement.
Identified new regions and markets for potential expansion and growth.
Produced and distributed high-quality content that educates and engages the community about the Union’s mission, vision, and progress.

Strategic PartnershipsGo-to-Market StrategyProgram ManagementGrowth StrategiesPublic SpeakingCommunity Development+1

Shardeum

2 roles

Community Lead

Dec 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

Built & scaled the Proof of Community (IRL Meetups), Shardeum is Borderless (UGC) and Shardeum Leagues (Regional Online community groups) Program .
Created guidebooks to help the community to understand Shardeum and the EVM ecosystem better. For reference: https://github.com/shardeum/Shardeum-ProofOfCommunity-Workshops
Hosted 300+ IRL events with 20k+ participants across 13 countries in APAC & MENA region in a span of 1 year.
Got 120+ potential leads for ecosystem partnerships.
Launched Super Shardian Program (An ambassador program) with 140+ contributors helping to spread awareness about Shardeum across the globe.
Launched PoC Backpacking India initiative to boost web3 awareness across India. Did 53 events in 90 days and got 25+ University collaborations to open Shardeum Blockchain clubs.

User Generated ContentCommunity BuildingEvent ManagementStrategic PartnershipsContent StrategyCommunity Marketing

Contributor

Aug 2022 – Dec 2022 · 4 mos

Hashed emergent

Growth: Ecosystem & Communities

Sep 2022 – Dec 2022 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Helping Hashed and Hashed Emergent portcos with GTM strategies in India
Organised 5 student mixers: 1000+ registrations | 350+ attendees.
Organised a founder-centric event and a student mixer in Singapore.
Planned 3 founder-centric events around ETH India.
Created a talent DB of 100+ students and shortlisted 25+ projects from student mixers for upcoming programs and talent pool for the portfolio companies.
Single-handedly managed and executed the events from scratch.

Go-to-Market StrategyStrategic PartnershipsEvent ManagementEvent PlanningGrowth Strategies

Og club dao

Core Contributor (Acquired by Brinc VC)

Mar 2022 – Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Onboarded more than 10K members.
400+ job opportunities created.
Helped 15+ founders raise funds from Pre-seed to seed from the community.
Hosted 100+ IRL events across 25+ cities across 8 countries.
Provided 50+ deal flow for VCs and Angel investor's community.

Gitopia

Developer Relations

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022 · 7 mos

Gitopia is a decentralized code collaboration platform with an inbuilt mechanism to reward opensource contributions, permanent storage for the repositories, DAO governance, decentralized control and much more. As a Developer Relations Engineer I am responsible for:
Working with the community to help them in easy onboarding to Gitopia.
Building and maintaining communication channels and messaging for promoting various developer activities of Gitopia and Partners.
Responsible for managing technical blogs and educational content for the community
Help build out community events and meetups to drive community collaboration
Work directly with our product and engineering teams to drive feedback from community members.
Managing timely execution of partner-driven events on Gitopia.
Bringing out new creative ways to boost open-source developments through Gitopia.
Drive programs to boost developer adoption on Gitopia. Created a summer of Blockchain program from scratch.

Developer MarketingDeveloper RelationsCommunity BuildingProgram ManagementContent Creation

Talentsprint

Community & Growth Counsultant(For TSWE 2021)

Feb 2021 – Mar 2021 · 1 mo

I was responsible for managing the growth of TalentSprint Women Engineers program
powered by Google. My day to day tasks were:
Building Community Strategy which aligns with company’s mission
Running online campaigns to attract more audience
Spreading the word through student communities

Commudle

Program Manager

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr

Building a developer-centric platform focused on bringing developers and their communities together.
Onboarded 10k+ users on the platform with $0 marketing spend over a span of 6 months
Created two CDN communities to increase the reach of Commudle ,onboarded > 5100 members, and organized > 30 sessions.
Planned and successfully executed campaigns for promoting project collaborations and learning amongst developers. Reach > 60000 people.
Worked on strategy with the marketing team to increase developer outreach.
Compiled and sent monthly newsletter with a reach of>51,000 developers, Open rate was > 20%.

Program ManagementCommunity MarketingCommunity BuildingEmail MarketingCampaign Strategies

Interviewbit

Community Growth Intern

Aug 2020 – Nov 2020 · 3 mos

My role here was:
Developing and managing the overall student community.
Running online campaigns to attract more audience.
Hosting Hackathons and Workshops.
Developed and managed marketing strategies, plans and budgets.
Implemented social media strategy and execution, overseeing all social media channels to promote brand reach.
Working on community leadership programs for the community.
Associating with communities across India for mutual growth.

Sapio analytics

Data Analyst Intern

Jul 2020 – Aug 2020 · 1 mo

My major work was assessment of data quality and completeness in preparation for analysis.
Targeting high-value customers based on customer demographics and attributes.
Lastly using visualizations to present insights.

Gurugram police

Cyber Security Summer Intern

Jun 2020 – Jul 2020 · 1 mo

The internship was focused on the Research and Development work for Gurugram Police.
I worked on an ML-based malicious URL Classifier which is based on Logistic Regression and is further
implemented in a cross-platform Flutter app along with Virus-Total API.
During this tenure, I was exposed to different types of Cyber Crime Investigations.
Learnt and applied different methodologies like SQL injection, google dorks, burp suite, cyber range, Firewall and Spoofing. Working on different tools like malwares, ransomwares, DOS commands, port mirroring, IMEI number and IP address tracking.
Various experts are drawn from government organizations, judiciary, MNC to educate the interns.