Sridatta Thatipamala
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSridatta Thatipamala is a Member of Technical Staff and research engineer with 15 years building high-impact search, ranking, and RAG/agentic AI systems across startups and large tech. He led question answering and ranking efforts for Google Health’s EHR products, shipped improvements to Search coverage and designed interpretable clinical ranking models, and later founded AI-driven consumer wellness tooling including a real-time voice therapy agent with a novel staggered-reasoning pipeline. A seasoned backend engineer, he built large-scale ingestion, ETL, and vector search systems at Pinterest and earlier launched NowJS and Bridge from his YC-backed startup, contributing widely used open-source real-time tooling. He co-authored a practical guide on LLM evaluation and currently works on search evaluations at OpenAI, combining production-grade engineering with research-minded evaluation rigor. Based in San Francisco, he blends entrepreneurial product instincts with deep systems and ML expertise, and has a track record of turning noisy, real-world data (forums, EHRs, merchant catalogs) into reliable, evaluable models.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyFounder W11, Founder W11 at Y CombinatorMaster's (Machine Learning Specialization) Computer Science, Master's (Machine Learning Specialization) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMachine Learning Certification, Machine Learning Certification at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
javascript10
nodejs10
back-end-development9
websocket9
objective-c6
udp6
packet6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Flotype/now
Apr 2011 - Nov 2011
NowJS makes it easy to build real-time web apps using JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sridatta refactored and modified core server-side code related to NowJS, a library for building real-time web applications. Their contributions included refactoring handlers, implementing and modifying the `replaceVar` function, and addressing merging conflicts related to the `group.js`, `user.js` and `handlers.js` files. These changes likely focused on improving the server's behavior and the real-time functionality of the application. They also worked on file server functionality and interserver communications support.
javascript
sridatta/cs230
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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