Hyderabad, July 21 -- The city has added another name to its list of global tech leaders. Uday Ruddarraju, an alumnus of the Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT), has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer, Compute at OpenAI, nearly a year after joining the company from Elon Musk's xAI, where he headed infrastructure engineering.

Ruddarraju announced the elevation in a LinkedIn post on Monday, July 21, saying his first 12 months at OpenAI had been "incredibly rewarding" and that the Compute team had worked to bring capacity online quickly and reliably while handling the systems work across compute, network, storage and machine learning needed to train frontier models such as GPT-5.6.

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