Samuel Arnesen
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Arnesen is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems and data pipelines, now working as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI in San Francisco. He has a track record at Amazon designing production systems that moved advertiser intent and streaming data off monolithic stores onto DynamoDB, Lambda, Kafka and Elasticsearch for improved scalability and ordering guarantees. Samuel blends research and engineering from his time as a Research Engineer in an alignment group at NYU CDS to hands-on product delivery at startups like Hebbia AI. He holds a Computer Science degree from Princeton and has experience automating compliance and redaction tooling from an AWS internship. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and systems-focused, comfortable spanning architecture through implementation on both serverless and containerized platforms. An understated strength is his ability to translate academic research needs into production-ready data infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Walt Whitman High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (13)
gymnasium10
reward10
imitation-learning9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
reinforcement-learning8
language-modeling8
transformer-architecture7
pytorch7
machine-learning7
nlp7
deep-learning5
transformer5
language-model3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samuelarnesen/nyu-debate-modeling
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 review, 160 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
samuelarnesen/samuelarnesen.github.io
Jun 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:80 pushes, 5 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 9 months
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