# Tullie Murrell

> Tullie Murrell is the CEO and co-founder of Shaped, a New York startup building a real-time retrieval engine for search, feeds, and agents. Before Shaped, Murrell spent about five years at Facebook AI Research, where he created PyTorchVideo, the leading open-source library for video understanding, and was an early core contributor to PyTorch Lightning, a training framework now used by millions of developers. The video models he led powered Facebook newsfeed ranking and Instagram Reels. In 2021 he left big-tech research to package that same personalization machinery into a self-serve product for companies without armies of ML engineers. Shaped went through Y Combinator's W22 batch and raised an $8M Series A led by Madrona Ventures in July 2024.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Shaped
- **Organizations:** Shaped, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Y Combinator
- **From:** Australia
- **Nationality:** Australian
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, University of Adelaide
- **Known for:** Created PyTorchVideo, the leading open-source deep-learning library for video understanding, Early core contributor to PyTorch Lightning, now used by millions of developers, Led video-understanding models that powered Facebook newsfeed ranking and Instagram Reels

## Career timeline

- **2013-2016** — Studied Computer Science at the University of Adelaide
- **2015** — Interned as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir and as a software engineer at Google and Uber
- **2016** — Joined Facebook, holding roles across FAIR, Building 8, and ML engineering
- **2019-2021** — Led PyTorchVideo at Facebook AI Research and contributed to PyTorch Lightning; models powered newsfeed ranking and Instagram Reels
- **2021** — Founded Shaped to democratize AI-powered personalization
- **2022** — Shaped went through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch
- **2024** — Raised an $8M Series A led by Madrona Ventures and launched a self-serve platform

## Achievements

- Created PyTorchVideo, the leading open-source deep-learning library for video understanding
- Early core contributor to PyTorch Lightning, now used by millions of developers
- Led video-understanding models that powered Facebook newsfeed ranking and Instagram Reels
- Co-founded Shaped and took it through Y Combinator (W22)
- Raised an $8M Series A led by Madrona Ventures in July 2024

## Latest updates

- **2024-07** — Shaped raised an $8M Series A led by Madrona Ventures and launched a self-serve recommendations and search platform.

## Links

- Website: https://tulliemurrell.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tullie/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tulliemurrell
- GitHub: https://github.com/tullie
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns7fZSdRed8
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tulliemurrell/

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