David Kjelkerud

OpenAI

2023 – Present

Creating human interfaces to artificial intelligence. I work on the research team to create new ways to interact with and align cutting edge machine learning models.

Whywhywhy

2021 – 2023

Founder of Whywhywhy, a data visualization and analytics tool for teams. Inspired by tools like Excel and Jupyter notebooks we created a new kind of analytics tool to enable anyone to answer questions using data.

Labelbox

2018 – 2019

Labelbox is a training data platform for machine learning. Led the creation of a company strategy and the design of a new label editor, an online graphics editor tailored to creating training data for computer vision.

Dropbox

2014 – 2017

Led design for core Dropbox on desktop, mobile and web. Initated several early-stage product efforts, including a redesign of all Dropbox web apps. Helped grow the design team from 15 to 80 people.

Readmill

2010 – 2014

Founder and product lead of Readmill, a reading app and community. Readmill had a distraction-free reading experience and easy sharing of marginalia with other readers. Dropbox acquired Readmill in 2014.

Early stuff

2003 – 2010

I studied media technology and human-computer interaction. Early on I was interested in film making and interactive art and explored those fields during my studies and for the first years of my career.