# Dmytro Dzhulgakov

> Dmytro Dzhulgakov is the Ukrainian engineer and competitive programming veteran who co-founded Fireworks AI in 2022 and serves as its CTO. A former PyTorch core maintainer at Meta, he works on the practical problem of making open AI models fast, reliable, customizable, and economical in production.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CTO, Fireworks AI
- **Organizations:** Fireworks AI, Meta, PyTorch, Dnipro VC, National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
- **Nationality:** Ukrainian
- **Education:** Applied Mathematics, National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
- **Known for:** Silver medal at the 2006 International Olympiad in Informatics., Six Google Code Jam final appearances between 2008 and 2015, including fifth place in 2009., ICPC World Finalist in 2010 and 2012.

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Won a silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics and began applied mathematics studies in Kharkiv.
- **2009** — Placed fifth at the Google Code Jam final.
- **2010** — Reached the Topcoder Open algorithm final and the ICPC World Finals.
- **2012** — Reached the ICPC World Finals again; joined Meta around this period.
- **2019** — Co-authored the Deep Learning Recommendation Model paper.
- **2022** — Co-founded Fireworks AI.
- **2024** — Spoke at the AI Engineer World’s Fair and Gen AI Summit on production inference.
- **2026** — Listed as an AI advisor to Dnipro VC and continued serving as Fireworks AI co-founder and CTO.

## Achievements

- Silver medal at the 2006 International Olympiad in Informatics.
- Six Google Code Jam final appearances between 2008 and 2015, including fifth place in 2009.
- ICPC World Finalist in 2010 and 2012.
- PyTorch core maintainer at Meta; listed as emeritus in 2026.
- Co-author of the 2019 Deep Learning Recommendation Model paper.
- Co-founder and CTO of Fireworks AI.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Explained that Fireworks delayed its GLM-5.3-Flash launch while investigating benchmark and token-efficiency differences.
- **2026-08** — Discussed the general availability of Fireworks’ Training API and the economics of cached tokens in agent workloads.
- **2026-09** — Dnipro VC publicly lists him as an AI advisor in San Francisco.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dzhulgakov
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/dzhulgakov
- GitHub: https://github.com/dzhulgakov

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Last updated: 2026-09-29