Srinivas Narayanan

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States27 yrs 8 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams at Meta impacting billions.
  • Driving AI product development at OpenAI.
  • Expert in building consumer internet products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and consumer internet technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai/machine LearningConsumer Internet Products

Other Skills

Computer VisionNLPSpeech RecognitionReinforcement LearningAI PlatformsLarge Language ModelsImage RecognitionObject DetectionTranslationText-to-SpeechRecommendation SystemsConsumer Internet Products & InfrastructureEnterprise ApplicationsDatabase Systems

About

I’m a technologist passionate about working with great people to build products that people love. I had an amazing time leading several large engineering teams at Meta/Facebook building products and technologies that impacted billions of people worldwide. I also care deeply about building a great company culture and creating an environment where everyone can do their best work. I'm now at OpenAI leading the engineering teams building our products - ChatGPT and API - and the Infrastructure supporting them. Specialties: AI/Machine Learning, Consumer Internet Products & Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, Database Systems.

Experience

27 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs
Current Experience

Openai

2 roles

CTO of B2B Applications

Promoted

Sep 2025Present · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

VP of Engineering

Apr 2023Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Leading OpenAI's engineering efforts including ChatGPT, API (our Developer Platform), and the infrastructure to support them.

Facebook

VP of Engineering

Sep 2008Dec 2021 · 13 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • (2017-2021]: Led the AI Applied Research & Engineering Group
  • Led the team that did applied research and development, defined & built Responsible AI principles and systems, and built platforms and services in a wide range of AI areas including Core Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Speech Recognition, Reinforcement Learning and AI Platforms (including parts of PyTorch). Examples of company-wide services included Large Language Models, Image Recognition, Object Detection, Translation, Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, and models for Recommendation Systems. These products were used widely throughout Meta, had a huge impact on Meta's top-line metrics including revenue, engagement, and content moderation quality impacting billions of people, and were also instrumental in shipping many new products in AR/VR, IG and Facebook.
  • 2015-2016: Head of Platform and Applications, Oculus
  • Led teams that built a big part of the Oculus developer platform and first party applications that went into the industry first consumer VR headsets on PC and Mobile (Oculus Rift and Oculus GearVR).
  • 2012-2014: Led Engineering for Facebook Photos
  • Led the engineering team for Facebook Photos - one of the most used and critical parts of Facebook’s product. Reoriented the team to be mobile first and shipped many major product releases on iOS, Android, and web that helped people create and consume photos. During this time, also built the Computer Vision team at Facebook and helped start the first efforts in Deep Learning and AI at Facebook.
  • 2008-2012: Led several new consumer product initiatives
  • Led Facebook Places (check-in and location tagging). Grew the product from zero to hundreds of millions of active users.
  • Launched Facebook Usernames - one of the largest online land rushes at that time. Launched Interest Graph that allowed users to express their interests (movies, music, books etc.) in a structured way, and Hubs - that allowed people to connect to others with similar interests.
AI/Machine LearningComputer VisionNLPSpeech RecognitionReinforcement LearningAI Platforms+7

Viralizr

Co-Founder & CTO

Jul 2007Aug 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Startup where we built consumer products focused on social collaboration.

Tavant technologies

Director of Technology

Apr 2000Jun 2007 · 7 yrs 2 mos

  • Was part of the founding team and one of the first few engineers of what started as a startup and is now a successful enterprise software and services company. Led teams in building web based software products and services in the finance (mortgage processing) and manufacturing (order management and warranty systems) verticals. Led the core infrastructure team that created a reusable software platform with tools for object persistence, application deployment and monitoring, and testing frameworks to speed application development for all products.

Ibm almaden research center

Software Engineer

Feb 1997Apr 2000 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Did research and development in object-relational database systems. Shipped most of the
  • research as product features in IBM’s commercial database product DB2.

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison

MS — Computer Science

Jan 1995Jan 1996

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

B.Tech — Computer Science

Jan 1991Jan 1995

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