About

Hi! I’m Rohan. I’m a research engineer in New York City currently at Meta AI. Previously, I graduated with a BS in Computer Science from UCLA. I grew up in San Jose, California.

Work

I currently work at Meta AI on enabling large-scale distributed training within the PyTorch framework. You can find more about my research interests at this link

Previously, I’ve worked on building mortgage lending products at Blend, risk models at Affirm, and messaging applications for sports teams at Hudl.

Writing

This blog is mostly a place for me to collect random notes and tips that I’ve found interesting and useful over the years. Below is a reverse-chronological set of links to some essays that I’ve written over the years!

2020

How to use PyTorch’s RPC Framework

2019

Do One Thing

Modern Addiction

2018

My Internship at Affirm: Crafting a Reliable Metrics and Alerting Framework

2017

Welcome to AI at UCLA

Getting Started in Machine Learning

Misc

This section is still in progress!

Contact me

rvarm1 @ gmail dot com