Andrew First
Member Of Technical Staff, Research at OpenAI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew First is a technology executive and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building high-scale SaaS and fintech products, now contributing to research-focused B2B verticals at OpenAI. He co-founded Leanplum and Plannery, scaling teams and infrastructure to handle billions of events per day and raising over $6M for healthcare-focused financial products that delivered measurable savings and engagement. As CTO he drove migrations and cost optimizations (including a 60% infra cost cut and $1M+ annual savings), and launched AI-powered lending and card products that achieved low CAC and strong institutional interest. He combines deep hands-on engineering—from Google search ad systems to production ML classifiers—with product and fundraising chops, and has repeatedly translated data and AI into tangible customer impact. Based in New York, he quietly blends research curiosity with operator discipline, often focusing on improving financial outcomes for frontline professionals.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
TechstarsBS Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Science, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Science at Duke University
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Github Skills (49)
objective-c10
ios10
leanplum10
messaging10
xcode10
personalization10
carthage10
swift10
macos10
cocoapods10
logging9
fluent-bit9
fluentd9
stream-processing8
opentelemetry8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
afirst/JumpCraft
May 2021 - Apr 2025
Source code of JumpCraft 2D platform game creator. Developed between 2004 and 2011.
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
Leanplum/Leanplum-iOS-LocationAndBeacons
Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
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