diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-lightning/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-lightning/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..152fa6a92e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-lightning/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, isPy27
+, future
+, pytestCheckHook
+, pytorch
+, pyyaml
+, tensorflow-tensorboard
+, tqdm }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pytorch-lightning";
+  version = "0.8.5";
+
+  disabled = isPy27;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "PyTorchLightning";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "12zhq4pnfcwbgcx7cs99c751gp3w0ysaf5ykv2lv8f4i360w3r5a";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ 
+    future
+    pytorch
+    pyyaml
+    tensorflow-tensorboard
+    tqdm
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytestCheckHook ];
+  # Some packages are not in NixPkgs; other tests try to build distributed
+  # models, which doesn't work in the sandbox.
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "pytorch_lightning" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Lightweight PyTorch wrapper for machine learning researchers";
+    homepage = "https://pytorch-lightning.readthedocs.io";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ tbenst ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 38ba125fb5f..8a40d5625e7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4083,6 +4083,8 @@ in {
     cudaSupport = false;
   };
 
+  pytorch-lightning = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pytorch-lightning { };
+
   pytorch-metric-learning = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pytorch-metric-learning { };
 
   pythondialog = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pythondialog { };