I was born in Sydney, Australia.
Started a double degree at the University of Technology Sydney — business and information technology.
Interned at Palantir as a Product Designer in Palo Alto, CA.
Joined Spaceship as Head of Product and Design (later acquired by eToro).
Graduated from UTS.
Launched Presumi, my first product — #4 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
Founded Jellypepper, a digital agency for startups in self-driving cars, AI, biotech, crypto, drone delivery, cybersecurity and orbital logistics.
Visited Reno.
Contracted for R/GA — worked with Snap, Toyota, Google, Nike, Australian Ethical, Timberland and more.
Joined Corellium as Chief Product Officer — started the frontend engineering team, then led Product, Design and Support.
Created next-forge, a production-grade Turborepo template for Next.js.
Visited Minnesota, South Dakota, New York, South Korea, Texas, Bali, Sydney, Las Vegas, Germany and Miami.
Joined OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff.
Launched Blume (a docs framework), Files SDK (a unified storage SDK) and Batchwork (batch processing for LLMs).
Ghost, my dedicated game server project, hit #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
Visited New York and Alaska.
Hayden Bleasel is an Australian software engineer and product designer at OpenAI, based in San Francisco, California.
0
1993
I was born in Sydney, Australia.
19
2012
Started a double degree at the University of Technology Sydney — business and information technology.
22
2015
Interned at Palantir as a Product Designer in Palo Alto, CA.
23
2016
Joined Spaceship as Head of Product and Design (later acquired by eToro).
Graduated from UTS.
Launched Presumi, my first product — #4 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
24
2017
Founded Jellypepper, a digital agency for startups in self-driving cars, AI, biotech, crypto, drone delivery, cybersecurity and orbital logistics.
Visited Reno.
27
2020
Contracted for R/GA — worked with Snap, Toyota, Google, Nike, Australian Ethical, Timberland and more.
28
2021
Joined Corellium as Chief Product Officer — started the frontend engineering team, then led Product, Design and Support.
29
2022
31
2024
Created next-forge, a production-grade Turborepo template for Next.js.
Visited Minnesota, South Dakota, New York, South Korea, Texas, Bali, Sydney, Las Vegas, Germany and Miami.
33
2026
Joined OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff.
Launched Blume (a docs framework), Files SDK (a unified storage SDK) and Batchwork (batch processing for LLMs).
Ghost, my dedicated game server project, hit #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
Visited New York and Alaska.