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.
16 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 (73)
audio9
database9
swift9
visualizations9
realm9
cocoa-touch9
low-latency9
visualization9
ios9
objective-c9
boilerplate9
json9
audio-processing9
libphonenumber9
ios-application9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AriX/PrevueCLI
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Swift code for emulating the Prevue Channel. BSD license.
Contributions:11 PRs, 46 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 9 months
bsdswift
AriX/NMSSH
Jan 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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