Will Depue
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolWill Depue is a software engineer and designer with 8 years of experience blending applied research and product engineering, currently contributing to OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video model. He has a track record of founding and scaling startups—building DeepResearch from high school to acquisition and launching education-focused Thrive.fyi—and brings hands-on experience in API fine-tuning, model evaluations, and prompt-injection defenses. Based in San Francisco and trained at the University of Michigan, he pairs rapid prototyping and nonprofit engineering leadership with production ML work. Known for recruiting distributed teams and shipping data-driven solutions that analyzed over 100 million community data points, he combines creative design instincts with rigorous systems thinking.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of MichiganSalutatorian, Salutatorian at Geffen Academy at UCLA
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Github Skills (57)
openai-api10
realtime10
postgresql10
chatgpt10
matrix10
python10
machine-learning10
api10
openai10
firestore10
firebase10
database10
auth10
kaios9
deno9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
0hq/WebGPT
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:47 PRs, 100 pushes, 30 branches in 8 months
0hq/discordnetworkanalysis
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
A collection of social and NLP-related projects related to Discord social graphs and message classification/recommendation systems.
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
nlprecommendation-systemsdiscordrecommendationmachine-learning
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