Katia Bazzi
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
2026Engineering· Cursor
Founder · since 2024Company
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Engineering
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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
Source: LinkedIn work historyProfile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact
Experience
Career
2026OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff · 2026 – Present
2026Cursor
Engineering · 2026
2024Focal
Co-founderCo-Founder & CTO · 2024 – 2026
2020Stripe
Engineering Manager · 2020 – 2023
2017Lightstep
Staff Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017 – 2020
2015Eventbrite
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015 – 2017
Bio
Katia is the CTO of Vibe Previously, Katia was an engineering leader at Stripe -- there, she launched new financial products such as credit cards and banking as a service, processing >$6B per year. Before that, she led engineering teams at a distributed tracing startup (Lightstep) and Eventbrite after graduating from CMU.