2x founder

Stepan Parunashvili

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Founder

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

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @stopachka

2026Member of Technical Staff· OpenAI

Founder · since 2011

Company

OpenAI

Role

Member of Technical Staff

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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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 · 2026 – Present
2026
Instant
CTO · 2022 – 2026
2022
JS Capital Ventures
CTO · 2020 – 2022
2020
Airbnb
Founder
Staff Software Engineer · 2019 – 2020
2019
Facebook
Senior Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017 – 2019
2017
Facebook
Software Engineer · 2015 – 2017
2015
Wit.ai
Software Engineer · Palo Alto · 2014 – 2015
2014
Startups in China
Co-founder
Co-Founder · 2011 – 2014
2011

Bio

I work with people I will be friends with for a lifetime. I love hacking. I started off my career building a startup in China, and soon joined Wit.ai to work on an API for natural language processing. We used a suite of interesting tools, like Clojure, which heavily influenced my software design philosophy. We were acquired by Facebook. After 4 years, I had a stint at Airbnb, and decided to start Instant with my best friend. I also love to write; you can read some essays on my blog: stopa.io