Arjun Baokar
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolArjun Baokar is an experienced software engineer with 13 years building product-focused systems and leading teams across fintech and consumer platforms, currently crafting new solutions at Vesta in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has held engineering and interim management roles at Brex and served as a tech lead at Blend, bringing strong hands-on expertise in shipping scalable, production-ready software. His background blends applied security research from UC Berkeley—coauthoring papers on Android permissions and designing privacy-aware ML pipelines—with practical reliability and observability work from internships at Salesforce and eBay. Comfortable switching between individual contributor and leadership responsibilities, he’s known for translating research insights into pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Colleagues value his combination of technical depth, people-oriented leadership, and a persistent focus on privacy and user-centered design.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Hindi, Marathi, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
visual-programming-language9
snap8
rails7
pact7
simd6
smart-contracts6
loop-unrolling6
optimization6
blockchain6
java6
go4
kadena4
oauth4
elixir3
portal3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
blend/nifty
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 9 tags in 4 months
finprint/protocol-eth
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
[DEPRECATED] Solidity smart contracts for the Finprint protocol.
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
ethereumblockchainsoliditysmart-contractscontracts
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