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Fireworks AI

Meet the Founding Team

Bringing decades of AI experience from PyTorch, Meta and Google to unlock product innovation.

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Lin Qiao
Co-Founder, CEO

Previously Head of PyTorch at Meta
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Benny Chen
Co-Founder

Previously Meta ads infra lead
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Chenyu Zhao
Co-Founder

Previously Google Vertex AI Lead
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Dmytro Dzhulgakhov
Co-Founder

Previously PyTorch core maintainer at Meta
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Dmytro Ivchenko
Co-Founder

Previously PyTorch for ranking lead at Meta
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James Reed
Co-Founder

Previously PyTorch compiler at Meta
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Pawel Garbacki
Co-Founder

Previously Meta Newsfeed core ML lead

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