Sarah Fortune
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Fortune is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building large-scale backend and mobile systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. She has led backend teams and shipped serverless infrastructure and event-driven services at Google, including Cloud Functions 2nd Gen, and recently led backend work on an agentic AI coding assistant. Trained in compiler construction and advanced CS (MPhil, Cambridge), she blends deep systems knowledge with hands-on mobile and Java development. Her career spans startups and large tech firms, from Android clients and mapping personalization to GPU parallelization and desktop virtualization. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who moves complex features from research prototypes into production-ready systems. Based in San Francisco, she pairs rigorous academic foundations with a track record of operationalizing cutting-edge AI and cloud services.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil Advanced Computer Science, Master of Philosophy - MPhil Advanced Computer Science at University of CambridgeBA Mod Computer Science, BA Mod Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
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javascript6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sjf/scripts
Oct 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:103 pushes in 6 years 5 months
sjf/data
Mar 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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