Adam Hilss
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Hilss is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with 13 years of experience specializing in machine learning, digital audio, and signal processing. He has held senior ML and staff engineering roles at Twitter and Dropbox, and brings entrepreneurial grit from founding transitions.dj and co-founding Mitro. Adam blends research-grade audio and signal expertise with production-focused ML engineering, shipping systems that scale in high-throughput, real‑time environments. Based in San Francisco, he pairs an MS in Computer Science from UT Austin with practical product experience dating back to early engineering roles at Intel and Google. Notably, his background bridges DJ‑level audio creativity and large‑scale ML systems design—an uncommon mix that fuels novel approaches to audio and signal problems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBSE Computer Engineering, BSE Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
code-server9
midi8
minecraft7
audio6
xcode6
organizer6
client-server6
iphone6
cpp5
portaudio2
audiounit2
c-language2
alsa2
pulseaudio2
java1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ahilss/wxWidgets-wasm
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 8 pushes in 25 days
ahilss/thrift-nacl
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 1 day
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