Alan Gou
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Gou is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building product-facing systems and startups in the Bay Area, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. He has a strong track record founding and scaling early-stage companies (Palette, Revv, Latent) and shipping production services at companies including Affirm, Front, and Agora Systems. Comfortable across the stack, he blends data-driven experimentation and product thinking—having co-created a platform for growth experimentation—with hands-on engineering of distributed services. A Recurse Center alumnus who studied CS at Columbia, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with curiosity, recently diving into deep learning, social psychology, and multilingual study in Spanish and Japanese. Notably, his background includes macroeconomic research for the Federal Reserve Challenge and building high-throughput systems early in his career, reflecting both analytical breadth and operational depth.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Columbia University
French, Chinese, English
Github Skills (60)
deno10
javascript10
npm10
typescript10
rust-wasm10
package10
rust10
cli10
openscad9
francais9
image-generator9
jenkins8
postman8
newman8
json-report8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Nasafato/dotfiles
Apr 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Nasafato/nasafato.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:61 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 9 months
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