4x founder

Shelden Shi

Co-Founder @ OpenTag

Co-founder

Lilac Labs· Summer 2024 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn

2026Co-founder· OpenTag

Founder · since 2022

Company

OpenTag

Role

CTO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

Profile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact

Lilac Labs

We automate the person taking orders at drive-thrus with a voice AI

Summer 2024

Experience

Career

OpenTag
Co-founder
Co-Founder | CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2026 – Present
2026
Lilac Labs
Co-founder
Co-Founder | CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – 2026
2024
Stealth Startup
Co-founder
Co-Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – 2024
2023
Symbolic Software Solutions
Founder
Founding Engineer · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
Flatiron Health
Software Engineer · New York, New York, United States · 2022
2022
Roche
Software Engineer · 2021
2021
CertiK
Software Engineer · New York, New York, United States · 2021
2021
University of California, Berkeley
Research Assistant · Berkeley, California, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020

Bio

Shelden is the Co-Founder and CTO of Gini Agent. Shelden studied CS and CogSci at UC Berkeley. Before Gini, Shelden was the CTO of Lilac Labs, building the best drive-thru voice ordering product with the highest non-intervention rate. Prior to that, Shelden was the founding engineer at Symbolic, leading the development of a Fintech lending platform with ~$1B in AUM and 30k monthly active users.