Michael Oliver
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Oliver is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI after a decade of shaping infrastructure and developer experience at Kojo. He helped scale Kojo from a six-person founding team to 100+ employees by building core platforms, CI/CD, APIs, and developer tooling while also contributing to AI models and frontend work. Comfortable across the stack, he has a strong track record in high-throughput systems—previously building real-time streaming and in-memory engines at Pinterest that cut costs dramatically—and deep expertise in infrastructure, reliability, and incident response. Michael pairs hands-on execution with hiring and mentorship, having interviewed hundreds of candidates and guided dozens of engineers. A Canadian transplant based in San Francisco, he brings a global perspective from travel to 31 countries and a curiosity that surfaces in pursuits from numerical simulation to tabletop RPGs. Notably versatile, he’s known for quickly mastering unfamiliar domains and delivering thoughtful, pragmatic solutions under pressure.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma; Gifted Diploma, Diploma; Gifted Diploma at O'Neill Collegiate & Vocational InstituteBMath Computer Science and Applied Mathematics with Physics Minor, BMath Computer Science and Applied Mathematics with Physics Minor at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (189)
postgresql10
actionscript10
extensible10
javascript10
exchange10
orm-library10
database10
cli10
build-time10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
mariadb10
typescript10
prisma10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
thecodeboss/AcousticSimulator
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 6 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 8 months
thecodeboss/elixir-thrift
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Thrift Utilities for Elixir
Contributions:5 PRs, 72 pushes, 42 branches in 1 year 4 months
elixirthrift
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