[Nomination] Kir Zharov #274
Description
Select one:
- I am nominating myself for the PyTorch Ambassador Program.
- I am nominating someone else to become a PyTorch Ambassador.
Please confirm that the nominee meets the following requirements:
- The nominee is 18 years of age or older.
- The nominee agrees to abide by the PyTorch Code of Conduct.
- The nominee agrees to comply with the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy.
- The nominee meets at least one of the qualifications listed in the PyTorch Ambassador Program Requirements.
Nominee Name
Kir Zharov
Nominee Email
Nominee's GitHub or GitLab Handle
kirzharov
(Optional) Organization / Affiliation
London PyTorch Meetup
City, State/Province, Country
London, United Kingdom
Your Name
No response
Your Email (Optional)
No response
How has the nominee contributed to PyTorch?
- An active contributor to PyTorch repositories (e.g., commits, PRs, discussions).
- A speaker at PyTorch events or workshops.
- A PyTorch user group organizer or meetup host.
- A researcher or educator using PyTorch in academic work or training.
- An active leader in the PyTorch community with at least one year of experience in:
- Organizing events (virtual/in-person).
- Speaking at AI/ML conferences.
- Mentoring others in PyTorch.
- Creating technical content (e.g., blogs, videos, tutorials).
🏆 How Would the Nominee Contribute as an Ambassador?
As the co-organiser of London’s only PyTorch-focused user group (1,500+ members, 200+ YouTube subscribers), I already serve a large, engaged audience. Ambassador status would allow me to amplify that impact while aligning my plans with the programme’s three pillars:
1. Local Community Leadership
Support from the PyTorch team would formalise our meetup as an official part of the PyTorch ecosystem, helping us attract more speakers and grow the community.
2. Learning & Development
I will continue to grow as an ML/MLOps Engineer and help others do the same—through meetups and hands-on workshops.
3. Knowledge Sharing
We are scaling everything we learn beyond the room by recording and publishing every talk on our YouTube channel (goal: reach 500-1k subscribers within 12 months).
I'm planning to start contributing to PyTorch and giving talks to share GenAI and PyTorch experience.
By systematically expanding events, codifying new knowledge, and shipping open-source examples, our meetup group aims not only to meet but to exceed all Ambassador responsibilities, providing an inclusive, high-impact gateway to PyTorch for developers across the UK and beyond.
Thank you for organising this programme!Any additional details you'd like to share?
Hi PyTorch Ambassadors Team,
My name is Kir Zharov, I'm living in London, UK and over the last a couple of years I co-organised and hosted many PyTorch meetups in London together with Fedor Shabashev.
- We are the only PyTorch meetup group in London (to the best of my knowledge).
- We have 1,500+ members on Meetup.com.
- Our events regularly attract 150+ attendees, including ML engineers, research engineers, and startup founders.
- We’ve had speakers from the core PyTorch team, including Vincent Moens, Mario Lezcano Casado, and Nicolas Hug.
- We consistently receive positive feedback from our attendees (meetup feedback is 4.5 stars on average on meetup.com)
- You can learn more about us here:
https://www.meetup.com/london-pytorch-meetup/
- We also upload our talks to our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@londonpytorchmeetup
We have 200 subscribes in our YouTube channel.
Example talks:
- Vincent Moens, Integrating RLHF in TorchRL (https://youtu.be/MyaGLR7PM20)
- Mario Lezcano Casado, The torch.compile Stack and How to Introspect It (https://youtu.be/Z3dL2D2BEHE)
- Nicolas Hug, TorchVision Transforms V2 (https://youtu.be/_CdgR35yu9s)