Uday Ruddarraju Appointed as CTO of Compute at OpenAI

Exam-focused facts from the 22 July 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Uday Ruddarraju, an Indian-origin tech leader, was appointed as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Compute at OpenAI in July 2026.
He joined OpenAI in 2025 from Elon Musk's xAI, where he served as Head of Infrastructure Engineering.
Ruddarraju holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, and a Master's degree from the University of Minnesota.
Earlier, he held engineering leadership roles at Amazon Web Services (AWS), eBay, and Robinhood.
At OpenAI, Ruddarraju's team contributed to training frontier models like GPT-5.6 and is focused on expanding AI infrastructure.