Ankit Gohel
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkit Gohel is a pragmatic software engineer and technical leader with a decade of experience building payments, billing, and revenue infrastructure, now contributing to OpenAI’s Financial Engineering team. He led multi-team execution at Asana—scaling payment platforms and licensing systems while managing ~35 engineers across San Francisco and Vancouver. Comfortable across Scala, Python, TypeScript and distributed systems, he has a track record of turning complex billing requirements into reliable microservices and developer-facing tooling. Early internships in finance and startups honed his operational mindset—automating release processes and building REST APIs from scratch—so he blends product-focused engineering with strong delivery discipline. A University of Illinois CS graduate, he pairs hands-on implementation with team leadership in fast-moving, high-stakes environments.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S), Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (24)
apollo10
circular-progress-bar7
latex7
circle6
jekyll6
traits6
linux6
jquery-plugin6
system-programming6
jquery5
animation5
javascript4
api4
posix4
throw3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SpeciesFileGroup/grpc_test
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 2 comments in 1 month
throwcs-492
ankitgohel1996/reddit-video-bot
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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