# Gabriel Bayomi

> Gabriel Bayomi is the Brazilian co-founder and CEO of Openlayer, founded in 2021 with former Apple colleagues Vikas Nair and Rishab Ramanathan. A University of Brasília electrical engineering graduate with a Carnegie Mellon master’s, he previously worked on Siri and now leads a company developing tools to test, monitor and govern AI systems.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Openlayer
- **Organizations:** Openlayer, Apple, Salesforce, Brightcove, Kraft Heinz, Fundação Estudar, Carnegie Mellon University ARTICULAB
- **Nationality:** Brazilian
- **Education:** B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Brasília, Computer Science exchange student; Science Without Borders scholarship, Cornell University, M.S. in Intelligent Information Systems, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Openlayer, a YC Summer 2021 company., Led Openlayer when it announced a $14.5 million Series A in May 2025., Fundação Estudar fellow, class of 2017.

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Received the Best Strategy Prize with his team at the MANIAC Challenge in Berlin.
- **2014–2015** — Studied at Cornell on a Science Without Borders exchange.
- **2015–2016** — Completed two summer developer internships at Brightcove.
- **2016–2017** — Interned at Kraft Heinz in Brazil.
- **2017** — Became a Fundação Estudar fellow and began graduate study at Carnegie Mellon.
- **2017–2018** — Worked with ARTICULAB and the Tartan Alexa Prize team at Carnegie Mellon.
- **2018** — Machine learning software engineering internship at Salesforce; completed Carnegie Mellon master’s.
- **2019–2021** — Worked as a machine learning engineer at Apple, including Siri.
- **2021** — Co-founded Openlayer with Vikas Nair and Rishab Ramanathan; participated in YC Summer 2021.
- **2025** — Openlayer announced a $14.5 million Series A on May 14.
- **2026** — Openlayer expanded its partner distribution with Telefónica Tech and released jevals.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Openlayer, a YC Summer 2021 company.
- Led Openlayer when it announced a $14.5 million Series A in May 2025.
- Fundação Estudar fellow, class of 2017.
- Best Strategy Prize, MANIAC Challenge 2013, with his research team.
- Cornell College of Engineering Dean’s List, 2014–2015.
- Best Technology for Journalism and third overall at the 2016 Globo Hackathon.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Openlayer released jevals on September 23, an open-source Python library for agent evaluations and runtime guardrails.
- **2026-03** — Telefónica Tech announced a commercial agreement to integrate Openlayer into its AI and data services on March 25.
- **2025-05** — Openlayer announced a $14.5 million Series A on May 14.

## Links

- Website: https://gbayomi.me/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbayomi/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/gbayomi
- GitHub: https://github.com/gbayomi

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Last updated: 2026-10-21