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OpenAI appoints Vijaye Raji CTO of applications
He will lead ChatGPT and Codex engineering, strengthening infrastructure, integrity, and scalable product development.
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Bhavana P - Wed, 03, Sep 2025
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Vijaye Raji / LinkedIn
OpenAI has named Indian-origin business executive Vijaye Raji as its chief technology officer (CTO) of applications, a newly expanded leadership role created to guide the company’s fast-growing suite of AI-driven products.
The move comes as part of OpenAI’s acquisition of Statsig, a leading experimentation platform, where Raji served as CEO and founder.
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In his new role, Raji will report to Fidji Simo, CEO of applications, and lead product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex, overseeing infrastructure, integrity, and other core systems. With a decade of experience scaling consumer products at Meta and entrepreneurial expertise, Raji is expected to help accelerate the development of OpenAI’s applications into reliable, widely adopted tools for consumers and businesses.
“He’s joining at a time when our models are opening entirely new ways to build, and his leadership will help turn that progress into safe applications that empower people with many new tools to improve their lives, help companies increase their impact and allow developers to build faster and better products,” said Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications, OpenAI
Raji launched Statsig in 2021, after a career spanning two decades spent at Microsoft and Facebook. Statsig has built a reputation as a trusted platform for A/B testing, feature flagging, and real-time decision-making, serving some of the world’s leading technology companies, including OpenAI itself.
“Joining OpenAI as CTO of Applications is an extraordinary opportunity to bring my experience scaling consumer and enterprise products to a mission I deeply believe in: advancing AI in ways that are capable of solving hard problems, reliable, and truly beneficial to people everywhere,” Raji said.
The $1.1 billion acquisition of Statsig, if approved by regulators, marks one of OpenAI’s largest corporate deals to date. By bringing Statsig in-house, OpenAI plans to strengthen its experimentation capabilities within the Applications division while maintaining continuity for Statsig’s existing customers. Once the deal is finalized, all Statsig employees will transition to OpenAI but continue operating independently from their Seattle headquarters.
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