Spencer Kim
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Kim is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI based in San Francisco with 10 years of software engineering experience across cloud infrastructure, AI safety, and autonomous systems. He has shipped production systems at AWS, Nightfall AI, and Applied Intuition, and brings startup speed together with large-scale engineering rigor. His background includes optimizing low-level Hadoop/Hive reads for a parallel graph computation engine and a ~1200% web app load-time improvement from earlier full‑stack work, showing a knack for performance and systems-level tuning. Spencer also built real‑time mobile and web tools for airspace visualization and contributed experimental MATLAB and Rails tools in cognitive neuropsychology research, reflecting an unusual blend of technical depth and interdisciplinary thinking grounded by a BA in Computer Science and Philosophy from Harvard.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Durham Academy Upper SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science and Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science and Philosophy at Harvard University
Github Skills (9)
latency10
reflect10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
benchmarks10
apache9
azure6
microsoft5
microsoft-azure3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tigerragexd/bs_poker
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
tigerragexd/HowieTonCer
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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