Chris Colburn
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Colburn is a data engineering leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale analytics and personalization systems, currently leading three Data Engineering areas for ChatGPT at OpenAI. Previously he spent a decade at Netflix rising from senior analytics engineer to director, where he led cross-functional teams responsible for logging frameworks, experimentation analytics, personalization pipelines, and petabyte-scale data processing. He combines deep technical roots—a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and a background in computational science—with product-focused execution that turns complex data into actionable features and metrics. Chris has a track record of creating reusable tooling (e.g., open-source analytic libraries and scalable model scoring systems) and defining patterns for processing O(100TB/day) datasets. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs rigorous scientific thinking with operational delivery, enabling faster experimentation and personalization. Based in San Jose, he blends academic modeling expertise with hands-on engineering leadership at the intersection of product, growth, and ads.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMountain View High School
Github Skills (7)
statistics9
machine-learning8
python8
data-science7
data-analysis7
scikit-learn6
scikit5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
Netflix/Surus
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 month
Netflix/netflix.github.com
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 2 days
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