Venkat Gattupalli is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he enables frontier-scale AI infrastructure for pre-training. His work brings high-performance networking into cloud-native environments while preserving workload isolation, reliability, and operational simplicity. Before OpenAI, he was a Traffic Engineering Lead at eBay, helping lead its move to cloud-native service mesh, software-defined load balancing, and resilient traffic orchestration across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters.