João Araújo
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Araújo is a seasoned infrastructure engineer with 18 years building high-performance internet architecture, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI focused on GPU connectivity for large-scale compute. His career includes founding-engineer experience at Observe and systems work at Fastly, where he specialized in connecting caches, dots, and distributed components to keep critical networks humming. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from UCL and a master’s from Universidade do Porto, bringing deep academic rigor to production systems. Based in San Francisco, João blends low-level systems thinking with product-minded pragmatism and a knack for simplifying complex interdependencies across compute, networking, and observability. An understated operator, he prefers letting resilient architectures speak for themselves rather than flashy demonstrations.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidade do PortoUniversity College London
Github Skills (137)
pluggable10
http-api10
telegraf10
integrations10
xpath10
monitoring10
golang10
yang10
json10
kubernetes10
kafka10
go10
agent10
napalm10
docker10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
observeinc/terraform-aws-lambda
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Terraform module to configure an Observe Lambda function for forwarding data to Observe
Contributions:1 release, 16 reviews, 68 commits in 1 year 11 months
lambda-functionserverlessaws-lambdaconfigureterraform
observeinc/aws-sam-apps
Mar 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:31 reviews, 185 PRs, 433 pushes in 8 months
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