Summary
Andrew Tsao is a user operations and support engineering leader with a decade of experience building and scaling technical support, field engineering, and customer success functions across seed to Series F startups and high-growth companies in the BI, analytics, and AI/ML space. He has repeatedly bootstrapped support organizations—growing teams globally, establishing premium revenue-generating services, and shepherding companies from single-digit ARR to hundreds of millions. Currently on OpenAI’s support and community staff, Andrew combines hands-on technical troubleshooting with strategic leadership, having reported to CEOs and CTOs and owned end-to-end customer journeys. Notably, he has deep domain experience across data platforms and has moved fluidly between pre-sales, professional services, developer advocacy, and 24x7 enterprise support. Based in the Bay Area and trained in Operations Research at Cornell, he brings a data-driven approach to customer success and operational scaling.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Operations Research, Bachelor's Operations Research at Cornell University
North Olmsted High School
English, Chinese, Korean