
Romain Huet is a French entrepreneur and engineer with a passion for developer platforms. He currently leads Developer Experience at OpenAI, inspiring and supporting founders and builders to integrate AI into their applications, and directing the creation of elegant and powerful tools for all developers. Previously, Romain spent five years at Stripe, leading product management for the developer platform and overseeing global developer relations. Before Stripe, he helped with the relaunch of Twitter’s developer platform and co-founded Jolicloud in Paris, where he developed a cloud-based operating system and the Jolibook, a personal computer.
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Huet leads Developer Experience at OpenAI and is the person who runs OpenAI's marquee live demos. At DevDay 2025 he built working software on stage from voice, sketches and devices using Codex — wiring up a network camera (via the VISCA protocol) and stage lights without hand-writing code. Attend for a code-forward, demo-heavy look at how OpenAI itself builds with agents and where the developer platform is heading.
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