Josh Fromm
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Fromm is a software engineering manager based in Portland with nine years of experience building compilers, kernels, and system software to make cutting-edge AI models run efficiently across hardware. He progressed from research roles and internships at Caltech, JPL, Microsoft, and Google to leadership positions at OctoAI (now NVIDIA) and Meta, blending deep research chops from a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering with hands-on production engineering. Josh specializes in low-level performance optimization and infrastructure for ML workloads, owning teams that bridge academic ideas and deployable kernels. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who still dives into compiler and kernel code when complex bottlenecks arise.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of WashingtonCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (86)
python10
metal10
deep-learning10
gpu10
cpp10
gpu-acceleration10
spirv10
opencl10
tvm10
javascript10
onnx10
hardware-acceleration10
numpy10
temp10
ai10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jwfromm/Riptide
Sep 2018 - Feb 2022
Simple Training and Deployment of Fast End-to-End Binary Networks
Contributions:82 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 3 years 4 months
mlpend-to-enddeploymentmachine-learningtraining
jwfromm/FBGEMM
May 2024 - Jan 2026
FB (Facebook) + GEMM (General Matrix-Matrix Multiplication) - https://code.fb.com/ml-applications/fbgemm/
Contributions:361 pushes, 136 branches in 1 year 8 months
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