Venkatesh Thallam
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkatesh Thallam is a seasoned engineering leader and backend engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable services used by billions, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI after a multi-year leadership stint at Meta and Instagram. He has deep hands-on expertise in Python, Go, Java/Spring, distributed systems, messaging, and cloud infrastructure (Hadoop, AWS, Jenkins, Ansible) and has repeatedly shipped high-throughput, production-grade systems like Instagram’s notification feed and Flyer’s backend. As a founder he built and scaled consumer-facing products twice—Jobsplane to one million users and Stonks News to a top Hacker News launch—bringing product intuition and growth-minded engineering to platform work. His open-source project OpenUSM highlights practical tooling for server management using Docker and Redfish, reflecting an interest in infrastructure automation beyond product feature work. Based in San Francisco with an MS in Computer Science from NYU, he blends big-tech operational rigor with startup-speed experimentation and an appetite for applying retrieval-augmented approaches to real-world data problems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at New York University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
docker10
intermediate10
dockerfile10
emc7
redfish6
rest-api5
rest5
api5
scripting4
elk4
python4
powershell4
elasticsearch3
monitoring3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openusm/dockerlabs
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Docker - Beginners | Intermediate | Advanced
Contributions:8 pushes in 8 months
intermediatedocker
openusm/openusm
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 91 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
containersdockerletdocker-containersdatacenter
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