Authors and contributors

The RL Engineering team

Our team works across data, ML, AI, and reinforcement learning. We write about the data platforms, models, and environments behind training and post-training.

About the aliases. Our contributors use playful, CEO-inspired pen names. They are not the executives their names resemble. The avatars are generated illustrations. Views are personal and do not represent the employers mentioned here.

Data Khosrowshahi

Parody pen name

ML Data Platform

Previously at Uber

Worked on ML data platforms at Uber. A big-data geek focused on the data behind useful models.

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Bam Altman

Parody pen name

RL Environments & Reinforcement Learning

At OpenAI

Focused on RL environments and how agents learn from feedback. Interested in turning real tasks into useful training signals.

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Satya Nutella

Parody pen name

RL & Post-Training

Previously at Microsoft Research

Focused on reinforcement learning and supervised fine-tuning. Interested in how post-training changes model behavior.

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Elon Husk

Parody pen name

Robotics & AI Models

Previously at Tesla

Focused on robotics and AI models that turn observations into actions. Interested in how models learn to operate in the world.

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Spark Benioff

Parody pen name

Neural Networks & ML

Previously at Salesforce AI

Early neural-network work at Salesforce AI. Interested in how training data shapes model behavior.

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