Srinivas Narayanan

VP, Engineering OpenAI

Srinivas Narayanan is the vice president of engineering at OpenAI. In this role, he leads the engineering teams responsible for applying OpenAI’s groundbreaking research to build products including ChatGPT and the Developer API. He also oversees the infrastructure systems that enable these products to run reliably and efficiently at scale, enabling millions of people and businesses around the world to benefit from OpenAI’s frontier models. 

Prior to joining OpenAI, Narayanan spent several years during Meta’s hyper-growth period, holding key roles in engineering leadership. Notably, he served as the vice president of engineering, leading the AI Applied Research & Engineering Group. During his tenure there, Narayanan played a crucial role in the development of products and technologies that had a profound global impact, touching the lives of billions of people worldwide. Prior to Meta, he was a founder/founding member of two startups (Viralizr and Tavant) and part of the database systems research group at IBM Research, Almaden.