Hugo Aponte
Founder & Lead AI Engineer at Useful Labs LLC
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHugo Aponte is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft in Redmond with 25+ years of technical and leadership experience and a decade focused on Azure ML and production MLOps. He leads the team building frictionless inference and in-production ML experiences across portal, SDK, and CLI, combining strategic people leadership with deep hands-on engineering. His background spans AI research, startups, ad-tech and large-scale production systems— from inventing patent-pending recommendation models to running ad networks processing billions of impressions. Known for forming elite, fast-moving teams (Spartans) and for shifting seamlessly between individual contributor and manager roles, he excels at turning complex ML and infrastructure challenges into delightful user experiences. Hugo blends academic AI foundations with product and operational savvy, often surfacing non-obvious optimizations that improve ROI and reduce operational costs.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Computer Science, Engineer Computer Science at Universidad Simón BolívarSpec Artificial Intelligence, Spec Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Central de Venezuela
English, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
python10
data-science10
azure-sdk10
machine-learning10
azure-machine-learning10
ml10
azure10
npm9
cli9
mailgun9
command-line-interface8
azure-cli8
sendgrid8
smtp7
couchapp7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hugoaponte/headcount-buddy-web
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:19 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
hapontemloreto/npm
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 month
javascriptnodejspackage-managernpm
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