Alex Chow
Member Of Technical Staff, Hardware Health at OpenAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Chow is a backend infrastructure engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, high-reliability distributed systems across data, storage, and networking. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, he focuses on running supercomputers with an emphasis on networking and hardware health. Previously at Meta he drove scalability and efficiency for exabyte-scale storage, capacity forecasting across 15+ teams, and productionized large CV/ML pipelines for photorealistic avatars. At Square he built observability platforms and a Metrics Query Engine that handled millions of metrics, and earlier internships at Arista gave him deep exposure to networking software and performance optimization. He combines low-level systems work with org-wide operational leadership—having led capacity management for tens of thousands of hosts and delivered tens of millions in cost savings. Based in the Bay Area and trained at UCLA, he pairs hands-on technical rigor with a track record of enabling sustainable growth for massive infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (34)
search-engine10
opensearch10
java10
facebook10
restful10
elasticsearch10
c-library10
cpp10
inspect9
exporter8
prometheus-exporter7
system-information7
network-automation6
go6
telemetry5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
achow/elasticsearch
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
achow/pygnmi
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
The pure Python implementation of the gNMI client.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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