Usman Masood
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolUsman Masood is a seasoned software engineer and startup founder with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and AI-driven products in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s held senior engineering and leadership roles at Stripe and Pipe, co-founded Operator (acquired by OpenAI) and Kinnow Capital, and now contributes to OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff. Deeply experienced in databases and time-series aggregation, he contributed a continuous percentile aggregate using the T-Digest algorithm to the PipelineDB open-source project, demonstrating low-level C++ and serialization expertise. Usman blends hands-on systems engineering with product-driven leadership, scaling teams and infrastructure for fast-growing companies. His background includes MIT training and a persistent curiosity reflected in a wry GitHub bio—"I don't think, therefore I am not"—hinting at a playful, contrarian approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Urdu, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
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708reached
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Github Skills (7)
postgresql10
cprogramming-language9
database-design9
c-language9
performance-optimization8
pipelinedb6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pipelinedb/pipelinedb
Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
High-performance time-series aggregation for PostgreSQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 660 commits, 229 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Usman contributed to the implementation of a continuous percentile aggregate using the T-Digest algorithm, including the addition of serialization and deserialization functions. They added functionality to a specific C++ code file within the project. Furthermore, they modified regression tests to include the new percentile functionality.
realtimeanalyticspushstream-processingstreaming-data
pipelinedb/postgis
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 3 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
spatialpostgisdatabasespatial-databasegis
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