Brock Whittaker
Software Engineer at OpenAI
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolBrock Whittaker is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable front-end and full-stack products across startups and major platforms. He’s currently at OpenAI after shaping performance and code-splitting on Figma’s Community team and serving as a founding engineer at HIPAA-aware Sparrow. As founder/CEO of Portico he designed revenue tech for premium publishers, combining product intuition with data-driven audience targeting to unlock new paid revenue streams. Brock has a track record of modernizing large-scale front-ends (Zulip) and shipping pragmatic infrastructure for growth-stage products, pairing a finance background with deep engineering chops. He splits time between the Bay Area and New York, bringing both startup grit and platform-scale experience to product-facing engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Finance, Bachelor’s Degree, Finance at Arizona State University
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Github Skills (44)
socket-io10
javascript10
react-native10
web-application10
python10
electron10
typescript10
websocket10
apache10
chat10
zulip10
slack10
nodejs10
react10
collaboration10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brockwhittaker/AltCanvas
Oct 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
bitmapcanvasjavascriptrenderinghtml5
brockwhittaker/zulip
Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
Zulip server - powerful open source group chat
Contributions:4 PRs, 1034 pushes, 462 branches in 1 year 7 months
group-chatchataiozulip
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