Rohan Sahai
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRohan Sahai is a seasoned software leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling backend, data, and ML engineering organizations, currently leading the Sora product team at OpenAI after previously contributing to ChatGPT. He joined Affinity pre-revenue and grew its core infrastructure and a 20+ engineer org through Series C as Director of Engineering, blending hands-on engineering with strategic leadership. Rohan’s early roles at Weebly and a string of product-oriented positions shaped a product-minded engineering approach and comfort across the full stack. He started in product management and founded a campus-focused app as CTO, reflecting an entrepreneurial streak and practical product sense. Based in San Francisco, he combines startup grit with experience at acquisition-scale companies and a Mechanical Engineering background from Northwestern. Colleagues would note his penchant for “bending the medium” — pushing product boundaries while keeping systems reliable.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern UniversityHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Choate Rosemary Hall
Spanish
Stackoverflow
447reputation
79kreached
13answers
5questions
Github Skills (66)
laravel10
php10
async9
azure9
powershell9
jquery-plugin9
client-server9
http-client9
aiohttp9
arm9
http-server9
jquery8
python8
http8
laravel-framework8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rohansahai/rohansahai.github.io
Apr 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 11 months
rohansahai/WhatsGroovy
May 2014 - Nov 2020
Contributions:225 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 years 6 months
audio-playermulti-nodejavascriptaudionodejs
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