Tom Wiltzius is a senior software engineer and performance-focused IC with 14 years of experience building and scaling production systems across startups and large tech firms. He’s held leadership roles including Director of Engineering and Chief Architect at Welkin Health and led Latency & Performance at Stripe before joining OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff. Comfortable across the stack, Tom is technology-agnostic but most recently works in Python and TypeScript on AWS/Postgres-backed systems, with deep practical expertise in performance optimization and developer productivity. He blends product sensibility from a prior PM role at Google with hands-on engineering, making him effective at turning performance goals into measurable system improvements. Based in San Francisco, he enjoys tackling low-level bottlenecks and pragmatic platform work that accelerates teams as well as code.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Creative Writing, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Creative Writing at Stanford University
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Tom Wiltzius - Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI