Ari Weinstein
Member Of Product Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAri Weinstein is a product-focused software engineer and repeat founder with 15 years of experience building consumer-facing automation and AI products from startup prototypes to acquisition. He co-founded Workflow (acquired by Apple) and Sky (acquired by OpenAI), and later led Proactive, Siri, and Shortcuts engineering at Apple before joining OpenAI to work on ChatGPT for Mac. Comfortable across systems—from iOS and Android apps to Python backends, custom firmware, and reverse engineering—he pairs deep hands-on technical skill with product instincts. Ari has a knack for shipping polished user experiences that hide complex engineering, especially in productivity and assistant-driven interfaces. Based in San Francisco and trained at MIT, he blends entrepreneurial grit with a track record of creating products that attract strategic acquirers. An early engineer who has repeatedly turned tinkering and reverse-engineering curiosity into scalable features, he favors practical solutions that accelerate user workflows.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGermantown Friends School
Github Skills (94)
audio9
swift9
realtime9
tuner9
realm9
cocoa-touch9
ipad9
shortcuts9
boilerplate9
json9
iphone9
ios-application9
pitch-detection9
audiokit9
database8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AriX/NMSSH
Jan 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
AriX/FrozenCocoa-POC
Feb 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 2 months
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