# 🍃 Tristan Rice

> Software Engineer - PyTorch Distributed

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tristanrice

Hi there!

I'm Tristan Rice; Software Engineer and graduate of the University of British Columbia.

I'm very interested in distributed systems and machine learning. If you're also interested in that, I'd love to talk!

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Bellevue, Washington, United States
PyTorch Distributed 

Leading PyTorch Distributed Infrastructure including projects such as torchft and for large scale training and Llama 3/4

### Staff Software Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
Machine Learning Infrastructure

### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, WA
2021 - 2023

Pytorch R2P, TorchX, TorchElastic, torch::deploy

Working on open source project optimized for fast distributed training iteration and providing a standardized portable production grade machine learning solution for pytorch.

https://pytorch.org/torchx/latest/
https://github.com/pytorch/torchx

2018 - 2021 

Distributed AI, AI Infra

I work on making large scale machine learning more reliable, efficient and scalable. Distributed model and data parallel training. The largest Instagram, Facebook, and Ads models are trained on the software I work on. 

Contributor to both pytorch and caffe2 frameworks.

### Performance and Capacity Engineering Intern @ Meta
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, California
Worked on FBLearner with the Applied Machine Learning Infrastructure team.
Created a machine learning model for resource usage prediction of large scale machine learning jobs. Increases server utilization by up to 400%.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cockroach Labs
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York City
Worked on stability of CockroachDB's distributed KV-store.
Designed a debugging tool for the Raft consensus algorithm.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Gridspace
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Added seamless transfer of conference calls between servers for scalability.
Gridspace Memo UX improvements. Python, SIP, React and Django.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco
Full stack engineering

Worked on tools for curating the Knowledge Graph and data integrity.
Primarily used Go, C++, AngularJS, Polymer, and GoogleSQL.
Increased productivity of thousands of Google contractors.

### Front-End Software Engineering Intern @ Socrata
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Seattle
Front end development using AngularJS, and Ruby.
Debugging Scala and Java backend.
Software used by 100+ major government organizations.

### IT Intern @ University Prep
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Seattle
Computer and software maintenance.
100+ computers, 500+ users
Automation such as writing a high resolution imagery compiler.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science
The University of British Columbia
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/d4l3k
- Website: https://fn.lc
- Website: http://fn.lc/s/resume.pdf
- GitHub: https://github.com/d4l3k

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Last updated: 2026-03-22