Ilan Bigio
Engineer at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlan Bigio is an engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building production software at Google and OpenAI, where he progressed from Applied AI Engineer to Engineer. He blends full‑stack development skills with practical automation—his GitHub ethos of "hours of scripting can save you minutes of manual labor" is reflected in contributions to the high-profile openai-cookbook, improving Assistants API examples, threading, and run management. Ilan has a strong background in systems and teaching from multiple TA roles at Brown University, which complements his ability to explain complex technical concepts to peers and users. His early internships at Twitter produced cross-geo collaboration and tooling that streamlined deployments and test automation. Comfortable across Python, Scala, and API design, he focuses on improving clarity, reliability, and developer experience in AI integrations. Outside of day-to-day engineering he maintains a personal site (ilanbigio.com), signaling an ongoing interest in sharing work and documentation.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Brown UniversityColegio Karl C. Parrish
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
openai-api10
gpt10
python10
documentation9
chatgpt9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openai/openai-cookbook
Oct 2023 - Dec 2024
Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 22 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ilan contributed significant updates to the Assistants API overview documentation, implementing, and refining examples in Python. These changes involved core API interactions, threading, and run management. The user also addressed bug fixes, and improved the clarity and accuracy of the examples for better user understanding. The updates demonstrate a strong understanding of the OpenAI API.
apipythonopenai-apimachine-learningopenai
ibigio/mastermind-ai
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
An ever-so-slightly superhuman Mastermind player.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 years
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