OpenAI appoints Uday Ruddarraju to lead compute infrastructure as CTO

Uday RuddarrajuOpenAI on Monday said it has appointed Uday Ruddarraju as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Compute, as the company accelerates investments in infrastructure to support the development of frontier artificial intelligence models.Announcing the move in a LinkedIn post, Ruddarraju said he was “excited” to take on the new role after completing his first year at OpenAI.He said the company’s Compute team had worked to rapidly expand computing capacity while developing the systems required to train frontier models, including GPT-5.6.“My first 12 months at OpenAI have been incredibly rewarding.

Our Compute team has worked relentlessly to bring capacity online quickly and reliably, while doing the deep systems across compute, network and storage, and ML work needed to train frontier models like GPT-5.6.

As we scale, the problems only get harder that require pushing the frontiers and innovating across every layer (literally) of the stack,’ Ruddarraju wrote in the LinkedIn post.He added that OpenAI aims to build the world’s largest compute footprint to make frontier AI widely accessible.“We’re on a mission to build the world’s largest compute footprint so frontier AI can reach everyone and every workflow.

We have a very exciting compute ramp and roadmap coming up.

There is a lot to build across large scale distributed systems, hardware, manufacturing, and data center builds spanning civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering.

We’re hiring exceptional people across the stack,” he said.