Ben Olson
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBen Olson is a performance engineer and tool builder with 12 years of systems and low-level software experience, recently joining OpenAI after building advanced profiling tooling at Intel. He designed and open-sourced GPU and instruction-mix profilers that leverage eBPF, kernel interfaces, and hardware sampling to produce flamegraphs and actionable insights for AI workloads. With a Ph.D.-level research background in JVM memory management and kernel memory modifications, he comfortably bridges deep OS internals and high-level performance analysis. Based in Memphis, he favors digging into hard problems end-to-end—often producing small, pragmatic open-source utilities and kernel patches that quietly improve observability for other engineers.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Spanish
Github Skills (52)
messenger10
telegram10
rust9
dax8
servo7
qt7
browser7
fallback7
vim6
fortran6
mach6
qtwebengine6
linux-kernel6
python6
webbrowser6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
benbenolson/arch-config
May 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
benbenolson/hotspot_9_mc
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
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