2x founder

Joe Averbukh

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Co-founder

Instant· Summer 2022 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @JoeAverbukh

2026Member of Technical Staff· OpenAI

Founder · since 2020

Company

OpenAI

Role

Member of Technical Staff

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

North America

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Instant

The best backend for AI-coded apps

Summer 2022

Experience

Career

OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff · North America · 2026 – Present
2026
InstantDB
Co-founder
Co-Founder · San Francisco, CA · 2022 – 2026
2022
JS Capital Ventures
Co-founder
Co-Founder · 2020 – 2022
2020
Airbnb
Senior Software Engineer · 2019 – 2020
2019
Career Break
Traveling · 2017 – 2019
2017
Facebook
Software Engineer · 2016 – 2017
2016
URX (acq. by Pinterest)
Software Engineer · 2015 – 2016
2015
Quixey
API Engineer · 2013 – 2015
2013

Bio

I truly believe each one of us has the ability to create the world they want to see. I love working with optimistic and principle-oriented people. Since 2020 I’ve been building with my best friend. We followed two rules initially 1) Build something we want for ourselves and 2) Make something more ambitious than previously. Since 2021 we added a third rule, 3) Make it a business. To that end we launched Jobsearch.dev, ExportHealth, Zeneca, Consistent, and now work on Instant, the modern Firebase