Andrew Braunstein
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Braunstein is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building robust, scalable systems and mentoring teams, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. He has designed API platforms that span extremes of scale—from billions of requests per second serving millions of clients to single-client, low-QPS systems—bringing both frontend and backend fluency. Previously he led platform and SDK work at Covariant for AI-powered robotics and migrated YouTube’s core API platform to C++ microservices while authoring high-QPS Go routers. He pairs hands-on engineering with product-minded infrastructure work and a history of improving accessibility and developer tooling. Based in Oakland, he also has teaching experience at the high school and university level, reflecting a knack for explaining complex systems. A persistent builder, he balances high-scale distributed systems expertise with practical debugging and partner-facing SDK design.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The Wheatley SchoolBSE, Computer Science, BSE, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (105)
python10
echo10
data-interchange10
ruby10
protoc10
cpp10
collaboration10
middleware10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
mattermost10
golang10
monorepo10
protobuf10
grpc10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
awbraunstein/awbraunstein
Apr 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
awbraunstein/smspotify
Oct 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:28 commits in 25 days
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