Hi, I’m Kiriti.

I have 12+ years of experience building production systems, including AI products, machine learning platforms, and the data infrastructure behind them.

I’m co-founder and CTO at LevelUp Labs, where we help companies build and adopt AI through engineering, strategy, and education.

Kiriti Badam

What I’ve worked on

OpenAI

Codex & ChatGPT Sites

On the core Codex team at OpenAI, I worked across product development, agent behavior and reliability, and production infrastructure. Examples include the Codex Web launch, Slack integration, Code Review, and GPU capacity and fleet management.

I co-created ChatGPT Sites and co-led its development and launch.

What I learned building Codex

Kumo.AI

Graph neural networks & ML infrastructure

As a founding ML infrastructure engineer, I helped build Kumo's predictive AI platform, which uses graph neural networks to learn from relationships across enterprise tables. I helped scale it from a single node to distributed infrastructure training hundreds of models a day.

I built compute infrastructure handling hundreds of terabytes and a RocksDB feature store for GNN training. I led native Snowflake and Databricks integrations, including running training and inference inside customers' Snowflake accounts with Snowpark Container Services.

Google

Distributed databases & ads infrastructure

My work at Google spanned distributed databases and ads infrastructure, including machine learning use cases in Google Ads.

I contributed to a distributed data store serving 3 million requests per second across regions. My work included RDMA caching and fault-tolerant processing to improve performance and support workloads at scale.

Databricks

Data lake infrastructure

On the data lake team, I built a Spark–Salesforce connector and data pipeline features for checkpointing, query replay, SLAs, and alerting.

Samsung

Recommendation ML platform

In Samsung's Big Data Lab, I built infrastructure for the Smart TV recommendation ML platform. My work on the data pipelines team covered Spark pipelines processing terabytes of data each day and real-time recommendations with Spark Streaming.

Writing

I write about agent design, evaluation, and the engineering decisions behind AI products.