---
title: Abhishek Bhardwaj
category: people
role: 'Member of Technical Staff, RL & Agent Infrastructure'
company: OpenAI
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abshkbh"
twitter: "https://x.com/abshkbh"
sourceLabels:
  - Official speaker roster
  - Official conference schedule
last_auto_summarized: '2026-07-06T07:15:28.626Z'
---
# Abhishek Bhardwaj

## Profile
Member of Technical Staff, RL & Agent Infrastructure at [[openai|OpenAI]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abshkbh)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/abshkbh)

## Biography
Abhishek Bhardwaj works on [[openai|OpenAI]]'s RL and agent infrastructure layer, with a focus on the sandbox systems that let coding and computer-use agents execute real processes in repeatable, isolated environments. His World's Fair sessions, “From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud,” place him in the Sandbox & Platform Engineering track and frame agent infrastructure as a fleet-scale systems problem: agents need secure cloud sandboxes that can support training, evaluation, and deployment workloads without losing isolation, reproducibility, or operational control. Before [[openai|OpenAI]], he created Arrakis, an open-source sandbox for AI agents, worked on ChromeOS and foundational microVM technologies at Google, and contributed to core infrastructure and early versions of Replit Agent at Replit.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-abhishek-bhardwaj-from-fork-to-fleet-designing-an-agent-sandbox-cloud-pt-1]] — From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud Pt 1 (2026-06-30, 1:30pm-1:50pm)
- [[2026-06-30-abhishek-bhardwaj-from-fork-to-fleet-designing-an-agent-sandbox-cloud-pt2]] — From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud Pt2 (2026-06-30, 1:55pm-2:15pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-abhishek-bhardwaj-from-fork-to-fleet-designing-an-agent-sandbox-cloud-pt-1|'From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud Pt 1']]
- [[2026-06-30-abhishek-bhardwaj-from-fork-to-fleet-designing-an-agent-sandbox-cloud-pt2|'From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud Pt2']]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-wsFd22SL1s8` — 10 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-wsFd22SL1s8`: systems, chrome, code, sandboxes, operating, distributed, windows, subsystem.
- Evidence links for `youtube-wsFd22SL1s8`: [[youtube-wsFd22SL1s8]], [[youtube-wsFd22SL1s8-slides]], [[youtube-wsFd22SL1s8-dense-slides]], [[youtube-wsFd22SL1s8-reconstructed-slides]]