Cyrus Forbes
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCyrus Forbes is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web systems and real-time products, most recently joining OpenAI after an eight-year tenure as a Senior Software Engineer at Twitch. He combines full-stack fluency—Ruby/Node backends, Mongo/SQL databases, and modern frontend frameworks—with a deep, self-taught fascination for applied AI and its practical productization. Cyrus has entrepreneurial instincts, having co-founded two web-development startups and shipped internal tooling early in his career that balanced rapid delivery with maintainability. Based in San Francisco and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Northwestern, he excels at bridging research-forward AI ideas with production-grade engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers collaborative teams and creative technical challenges. Notably, his pathway from internships building internal apps to roles at high-scale platforms highlights a knack for turning prototypes into resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Northwestern University
English
Github Skills (21)
twirp10
protobuf8
programming-language8
golang8
ruby7
go7
rpc7
grpc6
interpreter6
compiler5
netflix4
latency3
fault3
odin3
rollbar2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cyrusaf/ctxlog
Apr 2023 - Nov 2024
Annotate golang log/slog logs with context-attached slog.Attrs
Contributions:5 releases, 11 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 6 months
cyrusaf/cyrusaf.dev
Jul 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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