OpenAI Compute Chief Sachin Katti to exit on November 15, Uday Ruddarraju to take over: Who they are?

Sachin Katti is stepping down as OpenAI’s head of infrastructure and compute, with his last day set for November 15 (2026). He is heading off to launch something new, but he will stick around as an advisor. Uday Ruddarraju, OpenAI’s CTO, on the other hand, will take over the leadership of the compute organisation, where he will directly report to President Greg Brockman. Sachin Katti announces exit from OpenAI Katti shared his plans on X (formerly known as Twitter), where he wrote that he is excited about his next venture. But he is helping OpenAI scale up its computing power, especially as the company’s data centre footprint keeps growing. Katti ran the GPT Infra team, which used OpenAI’s models for semiconductor design and infrastructure.