# Will Holley > Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/willholley ## Work Experience ### Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Founder @ The Art World Guide Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States I build quantitative models of the primary fine art market that are used by artists to achieve career goals, collectors to make informed purchasing decisions, and art dealers & galleries to improve sales. ### Software Engineer @ Promptfoo Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 Acquired by OpenAI. ### VP of Engineering @ Capix (YC S22) Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, NY - Capix develops enterprise GenAI for financial services companies. - Joined as Founding Staff Engineer; promoted to VP of Engineering in November 2024. - Designed, engineered, and shipped RAG pipelines and agentic LLMs using evaluation-driven development. - Led customer discovery, applying BANT framework to qualify opportunities, and managed design partnerships with investment banking, private equity / credit, and wealth management firms, and hedge funds. ### Founder @ 721 Labs (https://721.dev) Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States 721 Labs is a research and development company focused on how blockchains can unlock new forms of ownership and representation. Our first product – Duchamp's – pioneered using Ethereum NFTs as legally-binding property titles to a auction real-world-assets. Highlights include $85k MTG card, over $115k worth of Rolexes, and 2Pac's nose ring from the album cover of All Eyes on Me. Our auctions were featured in partnership on the home page of OpenSea and seen by millions. We co-founded an independent RadicalxChange chapter focused on the development and realization of Partial Common Ownership and advise on active experiments in the domain. Learn more at https://partialcommonownership.com/. ### Founding Team @ Strada Art Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area Member of the founding team at Strada, an art gallery in lower Manhattan. ### Co-Founder, CTO @ Hawkit.com Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Hawkit was a B2B2C marketplace for buying and selling collectibles. Raised $150K pre-revenue, pre-seed investment at a $2M post-money valuation. Grew to six-figure GMV and 1K MAU. Sold to a competitor in Q4 of 2020 in order to focus on adjacent opportunities. ### Software Engineer @ Arthena Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area Arthena (YC W'17; acquired by Masterworks) built bespoke financial products for the art market based on proprietary quantitative price-prediction models. I led across the entire technology stack and technical hiring. ### Product Development Consultant @ willholley.com Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 I've consulted with over three dozen individuals, startups, and small businesses. My focus has been designing and developing software and performing customer research. Highlights include Wavve (wavve.co), Freewrite (getfreewrite.com), Cinematic Music Group (cinematicworldwide.com), Tech Fort Worth (techfortworth.org), Betterfin (YC'17), All-Wise Meadery (allwisemeadery.com), Opkit (YC S'21) and Strength Alliance (founded by former US Navy Seals – strengthalliance.com). ### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ BentoBox Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Helped restaurants integrate technology into their operations and bring their brands online. ### Co-Founder, CTO @ Juris AI, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area Using natural language processing, machine vision, and machine learning, I developed a system to predict the statistical likelihood of receiving a USPTO trademark using an interface which was described "as easy as running a Google search". My team won the Brooklyn Law School's 2016 Cube Entrepreneurship Contest. ### Solutions Consultant @ TECH Fort Worth Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area Lead developer and manager of a team of four software engineers. We developed an enterprise social network in order to better connect TFW's companies and resources across the globe. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Classical and Ancient Studies & Computer Science The University of the South Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 ### NYU Stern School of Business Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 ### Groton School Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/waholley - Website: https://willholley.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/willholley JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/willholley/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23