Elliot Kroo
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolElliot Kroo is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over 16 years of product and engineering experience, best known for co-founding Getaround and building its Connect® in-car platform and marketplace optimization systems. He scaled Getaround from a startup to a public company, led multiple acquisitions and a $300M SoftBank round, and has deep experience aligning hardware, software, and data science to solve real-world problems. An early Googler and key contributor to Google Street View and Etherpad’s collaborative editing innovations, he brings a rare blend of systems-level engineering and product intuition. Elliot has repeatedly translated research into production—creating AI-driven insurance cost reductions and dynamic pricing engines that materially improved marketplace efficiency. Based in Oakland, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on technical leadership, from prototypes to large distributed fleets. Notably, his background spans both consumer mobile hits (a top-5 App Store game) and enterprise-scale platform engineering, showing versatility across domains.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Science International Science and Engineering Fair, High School Diploma Computer Science International Science and Engineering Fair at Gunn High SchoolUniversity of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (95)
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binder9
java9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kroo/mobi-python
Dec 2009 - Jan 2015
A library for reading (unencrypted) mobi-reader files in Python
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 1 month
pythonpyodidemobinumbanumpy-arrays
kroo/wyzecam
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Python package for streaming video from wyze cameras over the local network
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 78 commits in 3 months
pythonwyzewyzecamcamerastreaming
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