Who Is Uday Ruddarraju? OpenAI’s New Head Of Compute And Infrastructure Team

Who Is Uday Ruddarraju? OpenAI’s New Head Of Compute And Infrastructure Team OpenAI has named Uday Ruddarraju an Indian-American to lead its computing and infrastructure business As the company is focused on expanding its data centre capacity and investing heavily in AI infrastructure Uday has been promoted to manage the business Former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju joined OpenAI last year and was appointed as the Chief Technology Officer for compute in July He announced his promotion through his LinkedIn profile With his promotion he will replace Sachin Katti who has been overseeing the infrastructure However Katti will remain as an advisor to OpenAI Who Is Uday Ruddarraju Ruddarraju completed his bachelors degree in computer science from CBIT Hyderabad and moved to the United States to pursue a master’s degree at the University of Minnesota With an interest in technology he even did several internships including one at Amazon as a software engineer After completing graduation he joined eBay where he built cloud infrastructure to power the e-commerce platform In 2018 he moved to Robinhood and spent nearly six years there Starting as a Staff Software Engineer he rose through the ranks and finally became the Senior Director of Engineering amp; Head of Infrastructure Also Read From Terrorism To Youth Rights How India Is Acing UNs Biggest Debates With Its Defensive Offence Against Unwarranted Hits Uday was hired by Elon Musk in 2024 as the head of infrastructure engineering at xAI There he was responsible for building the large-scale computing systems needed to train the AI chatbots His expertise and experience led him to OpenAI in 2025 as the head of compute and infrastructure He has now been promoted to lead OpenAI’s entire computing capacity and infrastructure operations Udhay will now report directly to the company’s President Greg Brockman OpenAI To Spend Trillions To Develop AI Models The leadership…