Engineer · Executive

Thibault Sottiaux

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Member of Technical Staff; Head of Core Product and Platform at OpenAI

🇧🇪 Belgian

Sottiaux helped turn Codex from an internal developer tool into one of OpenAI's fastest-growing products. He now leads core product and platform work spanning Codex and ChatGPT, after building research infrastructure and leading Gemini human-data work at Google DeepMind.

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Background

Current role

Member of Technical Staff; Head of Core Product and Platform May 2026-present

Previously

Jul 2024-May 2026Member of Technical Staff; Engineering Lead for Codex,

Oct 2023-Jul 2024Gemini Human Data Lead,

Google DeepMind

Apr 2022-Apr 2023ML Workflow Lead,

Google DeepMind

Apr 2018-Apr 2023Staff Software Engineer,

Google DeepMind

Nov 2017-Apr 2018Senior Software Engineer,

2015-Nov 2017Software Engineer,

Education

UCLouvain UCLouvain

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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 5, 2026

News 1

person_addedThibault Sottiaux added to Turing Tree

OpenAI’s head of core product and platform, known as Tibo, is now tracked in the database.