[Nomination] Donny Greenberg #71
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
Donny Greenberg
Nominee Email
Nominee's GitHub or GitLab Handle
https://github.com/dongreenberg
(Optional) Organization / Affiliation
Runhouse, Fmr Product Lead, PyTorch @ Meta
City, State/Province, Country
New York, NY, USA
Your Name
Paul Yang
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?
We've been talking about for a while how a lot of the NYC-based technical groups for discussion have actually disappeared, or switched entirely towards discussions of inference-only applications. While Torch is a critical component of inference (vLLM joining PyTorch recently, etc), inference of LLMs represents only a narrow sliver of Torch's use cases and too many of these meetups rely on third party ML.
Having been formerly at PyTorch as a product lead, and working on the extremes of research to extremes of production, Donny has strong technical foundations for leading both product and engineering focuses discussions (and the right network to bring people together). Then, as a startup founder and CEO, Donny's been active in the local ecosystem, giving talks in just the past 3 months at GenAI collective, MLOps NYC, New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup, AI Camp, and several others.Any additional details you'd like to share?
Donny was previously the product lead for PyTorch at Meta, supporting the AI community across research, production, OSS, and enterprise. Notable projects include TorchRec, the open-sourcing of Meta's large-scale recommendations infra, TorchArrow & TorchData, PyTorch's next generation of data APIs, and unifying training infrastructure at Meta. Now he is co-founder and CEO of Runhouse, whose flagship product is called "Kubetorch" - or bringing ML workloads to Kubernetes.