Heather Schmidt is a member of technical staff in OpenAI’s Applied Engineering group. Previously she developed high-performance data ingestion and analysis systems for Logikcull, a legal technology company in e-discovery, and she was the founding head of engineering at Casetext, an AI-driven legal research startup, where she helped make DEI a bedrock company principle from the beginning. On her off days she bikes a lot and makes reproduction ancient Greek papyri.