Vijaye Raji is an Indian-origin technology executive and entrepreneur based in the United States. He is the founder and former chief executive of the software experimentation platform Statsig and the original creator of Small Basic. In September 2025, following OpenAI’s agreement to acquire Statsig in an all-stock transaction valued at about $1.1 billion, Raji was appointed OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer of Applications, overseeing engineering for ChatGPT and Codex.[1][2][3][4]
Early life and education
Raji was born into a Tamil family and earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Pondicherry University in 1999.[5]