Ankush Agarwal is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, specializing in building and scaling cutting-edge AI systems. With over a decade of experience across top-tier tech organizations, he has consistently designed infrastructure at the intersection of emerging technologies and massive scale. Prior to OpenAI, Ankush was a Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Co:Create, where he led engineering teams in architecting secure, scalable Web3 and blockchain infrastructure. He also served as a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Facebook for the Libra Blockchain Project, driving core performance framework metrics to 1000 TPS, and was an early core maintainer of the Kubeflow open-source project at Google, focusing on distributed machine learning platforms on Kubernetes. An alumnus of IIT Bombay and Stanford University, Ankush is passionate about AI, distributed systems, and open-source infrastructure.