Stephen Balaban
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Lambda, the AI cloud and GPU infrastructure company
Stephen Balaban is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Lambda, which builds GPU cloud and AI infrastructure. On Lambda's blog, Balaban has written about multi-GPU and multi-node distributed training, introduced the Lambda Echelon GPU cluster, and published a machine learning infrastructure playbook and a deep learning curriculum.123465
Career
Balaban is listed among Lambda's founders, alongside Michael Balaban, and serves as the company's Chief Technology Officer. Lambda's leadership page describes a team combining machine learning experience with experience building and scaling global infrastructure.1
Writing and engineering
Balaban's Lambda blog posts include a 2019 presentation on moving from single-GPU to multi-GPU and multi-node distributed training, and the October 2020 introduction of Lambda Echelon, a turn-key GPU cluster for machine learning teams.342
In 2021 Balaban published a deep learning curriculum gathering free courses, books and other resources, and in 2022 a playbook on building cloud, on-premises and hybrid infrastructure for deep learning teams.56
Work
Lambda Echelon (external site: lambda.ai)Proprietary product
Introduced Lambda Echelon, a rack-based GPU cluster design for large-scale deep learning that scales from a single rack to a data-centre-sized cluster.4
Lambda's Machine Learning Infrastructure Playbook (external site: lambda.ai)Show, channel, or publication
Authored a presentation on the decisions involved in building cloud, on-premises and hybrid deep learning infrastructure for a team.6
Career timeline
May 31, 2019
Published an introduction to multi-GPU and multi-node distributed training on Lambda's blog.3
Oct 6, 2020
Introduced Lambda Echelon, a turn-key GPU cluster for machine learning teams.4
Nov 1, 2021
Published Lambda's deep learning curriculum of free learning resources.5
Feb 23, 2022
Published Lambda's machine learning infrastructure playbook.6
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