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10 OpenAI infrastructure engineers
These ten current OpenAI infrastructure engineers hold infrastructure, compute or Member of Technical Staff roles at the company, and their titles or profiles describe infrastructure, data infrastructure or networking work. A reader can learn what infrastructure engineering work at OpenAI involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Akila Welihinda
LinkedInExperience: Agents Infra · OpenAI
Agents Infra at OpenAI since November 2024, according to the profile, after working at OpenAI under the titles Post-Training (2024) and Supercomputing (2022–2024). Before OpenAI the profile lists Software Engineer roles at Databricks from 2019 to 2021 and at Facebook from 2017 to 2019.
Alex Chow
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Health · OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Health at OpenAI since July 2023, and his profile describes him as a backend infrastructure engineer focused on building and running scalable, reliable and efficient distributed systems. At Meta he was a Production Engineer on Reality Labs (2021–2023) and Growth (2017–2021), and he was a Platform Engineer at Square (2014–2017).
Anurag Reddy
LinkedInExperience: Infrastructure · OpenAI
Infrastructure role at OpenAI since May 2025, with the profile headline Compute and Infrastructure @ OpenAi. At Cloudflare he was Director and Head of Capacity Engineering & Analysis (2022–2025) and Capacity Planning Manager (2019–2022), and at Sandisk he was Manager, Capacity Planning (2017–2019).
Dhiral S.
LinkedInExperience: Member of Infrastructure Staff · OpenAI
Member of Infrastructure Staff at OpenAI since March 2026; the role description reads AI Infrastructure Compute - Stargate. The profile also lists HPC Support Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2025–2026), and Production Systems Engineer (2025) and Data Center Production Operations Engineer (2021–2025) at Meta.
Emma Tang
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI since 2023; her profile headline says she is leading Data Infrastructure Engineering at OpenAI, and her role description lists data platform engineering covering big data compute, orchestration, datalake, streaming and classical ML infra. She was Data Infrastructure Engineering Leader at Stripe (2017–2021) and Co-Founder & CEO of Something New (2021–2023).
Jason (Qiang) Xu
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI since March 2024, with the profile headline Data Infra @OpenAI and a summary describing over 10 years specializing in data infrastructure. He was a Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb (2019–2024), a Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox (2017–2019) and a Software Engineer at Google (2013–2017), and is listed as an Apache Spark Contributor.
Paul Ashbourne
LinkedInExperience: Head of Agent Infrastructure · OpenAI
Head of Agent Infrastructure at OpenAI since April 2025; the role description says the Agent Infrastructure team builds systems that enable training and deployment of AI agents. At OpenAI he was also Team Lead, Research ACE (2024–2025) and Member of Technical Staff (2024), and he was Director of Engineering, Infrastructure at Embark Trucks from 2020 to 2023.
Renaud Gaubert
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI since February 2023, with the profile headline Infrastructure @ OpenAI. At NVIDIA he was a Software Engineer (2020–2023) and Tech Lead for the Cloud Native Technologies (2017–2020), and his profile describes experience in cloud, DevOps, Linux containers, orchestration and GPU technologies.
Supritha Pendyala
LinkedInExperience: Member of Infrastructure Staff · OpenAI
Member of Infrastructure Staff at OpenAI since September 2026, with the profile headline NetOps @ OpenAI and a focus on scaling AI infrastructure. The profile also lists Network Engineer at SpaceXAI (2025–2026) and Global Network Infrastructure Engineer at NVIDIA (2024).
Ta-Yu Wu
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff (Infrastructure) · OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff (Infrastructure) at OpenAI since August 2026. The profile describes developing system architectures and driving technology pathfinding for AI infrastructure at hyperscale, spanning compute, memory, storage and data movement. Earlier roles include System Engineer at Meta (2016–2026) and Principal Product Engineer at HGST, a Western Digital brand (2013–2016).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's layer of the stack to your question, since data infrastructure, compute capacity, networking, hardware health and agent infrastructure each raise different problems. Look at their prior employer and how long they have been at OpenAI, because a recent hire and someone who has been there since 2022 or 2023 will have seen different stages of growth.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you plan compute and capacity when demand for model training and inference keeps changing?
- 02What breaks first when infrastructure built for a normal tech company has to support large AI workloads?
- 03How do infrastructure teams at an AI lab balance reliability against the speed researchers want?
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