Somay Jain
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSomay Jain is a seasoned ML engineer and manager with 13 years of experience building production-grade AI systems and leading high-performing teams across Apple, Uber, Magic Leap, and now OpenAI. He blends hands-on modeling and software engineering—working on 3D scene understanding, gesture recognition, pose estimation, and end-to-end model development—with people leadership and product-driven delivery. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has moved between research and applied engineering, shipping features that span LiDAR+image perception, visual localization, and scalable ML infrastructure. An active open-source contributor early in his career, he enhanced Jenkins Job Builder integrations for major CI plugins and contributed to the humanitarian Sahana Eden platform, showing attention to tooling and real-world impact. Collected academic and internship experience from UMD, Oculus, and Google Summer of Code rounds out a profile that’s equally comfortable in code, experiments, and organizational strategy. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex ML research into reliable, deployable systems while mentoring teams to do the same.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (19)
python10
configuration-management10
cicd10
plugin10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
selenium9
selenium-ide9
web2py9
xml9
maven8
javascript8
git8
groovy7
html7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-infra/jenkins-job-builder
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
MOVED: Now at https://opendev.org/jjb/jenkins-job-builder
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Somay contributed significantly to enhancing the functionality of the Jenkins Job Builder. They focused on adding new configuration options for existing plugins, specifically the Notifications, Maven, Robot Framework, Plots, Gerrit, JUnit, Javadoc, Credentials Binding, Groovy script, SVN, Git, Sonar, Conditions Buildstep, Ivy, Email-ext, External Job, FS Trigger, and HTML Publisher plugins. These changes included adding new features, improving existing functionalities, and expanding plugin integration within the Jenkins Job Builder.
jenkinsjenkins-jobbuilderopendevjob
sahana/eden
Dec 2012 - Nov 2014
Sahana Eden is an Open Source Humanitarian Platform which can be used to provide solutions for Disaster Management, Development, and Environmental Management sectors.. Please sign CLA when submitting pull requests: http://bit.ly/SSF-eCLA
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & UI Designer
Back-end Developer & UI DesignerContributions:61 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Somay contributed to the Sahana Eden platform by fixing a UTC offset issue in the S3DateTimeWidget. They also ensured data integrity by preventing users from entering invalid date ranges in surveys. Furthermore, they added a calendar feature for date and time searches within the S3SearchMinMaxWidget. The user also fixed various selenium tests related to reports and volunteer certificate generation.
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