Summary
Ehsan Asdar is a software engineer with 12 years of experience now researching and building at OpenAI, having transitioned from a resident to a Member of Technical Staff. He brings a strong autonomy and systems background from roles at Nuro, Ike, and Skiff, where he worked on prediction, planning, simulation pipelines, and scalable infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments. His early work spans IoT, SRE, and data infrastructure at Silicon Labs, Google, and RetailMeNot, giving him a broad foundation in embedded systems, reliability engineering, and real-time analytics. Based in San Francisco and trained at Georgia Tech, he combines research-facing work with pragmatic production engineering and a knack for turning real-world vehicle and sensor data into realistic simulations. An understated strength is his ability to bridge low-level system design and high-level ML research, shipping tools that accelerate both experimentation and deployment.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts and Science Academy
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Urdu