Darius Karel
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDarius Karel is a seasoned full-stack engineer and technical leader with 14+ years of experience building product-driven software and shipping high-impact features at scale. Based in San Francisco, he led Asana’s AI Studio from design doc to launch in six months, delivering customer outcomes that cut manual work and saved hundreds of thousands annually, and has recently joined OpenAI as an MTS focused on growth engineering. He combines deep front-end expertise—contributing UI/UX improvements to server-driven React Native apps like Instawork/hyperview—with product-minded systems work across startups and enterprise teams. A repeat technical lead and co-founder, he’s comfortable running teams of eight, mentoring early-career engineers, and shipping both small UX delights and major workflow automations that drive adoption. Notably, his background spans experimental R&D (Hololens visualizers) to production AI features, reflecting a curiosity for new interaction paradigms alongside proven delivery chops.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Computer Science, Bachelor of Software Computer Science at Columbia International CollegeBachelor of Software Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Indonesian
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Github Skills (5)
javascript10
react-native10
front-end-development10
ui-components10
mobile-development9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Instawork/hyperview
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Server-driven mobile apps with React Native
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 21 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Darius primarily contributed to the UI and behavior aspects of the server-driven mobile app. They implemented custom actions such as "ask-rating" and "sms," extending the app's interactive capabilities. Furthermore, they added functionality like auto-focus to text fields and adjusted existing code to handle various behavior triggers more effectively. These changes directly enhance user interaction and functionality within the React Native-based mobile application.
wkwebviewreactreact-nativemobile-appstypescript
dikarel/manga-dl
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:50 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
scanlationdownload-mangadownloaderpythonsites
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