Andrei Gheorghe is a product-focused Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with 13 years of full‑stack and product engineering experience spanning startups and large platforms. He’s been a founding engineer twice, shaping stacks, infrastructure, hiring and culture while translating early customer feedback into robust MVPs. His background blends web, mobile and immersive experiences—from React/TypeScript/GraphQL backends to Unity and WebVR for social VR at Facebook—so he moves seamlessly between frontend UI polish and backend systems design. A practical open-source tinkerer, he built a real‑time ASCII webcam demo that showcases browser media APIs and cross‑browser UX work. Based in London with a BSc in Computer Science, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a curiosity for VR and AI that informed his transition into product engineering at OpenAI.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Real-time ASCII representation of your webcam video stream, using the getUserMedia API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:44 commits, 6 pushes, 6 comments in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily focused on developing the front-end components of the "ascii-camera" project. Their contributions include implementing the user interface, handling camera access through the getUserMedia API, and displaying the ASCII representation of the video stream. They also addressed browser compatibility issues and integrated a pause/resume functionality with a button for better user control. Furthermore, the user made various UI enhancements and updated the fork link.
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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Andrei Gheorghe - Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI