Yih Sun
Principal Engineer AI ML Infrastructure at Coupang
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYih Sun is a Principal Engineer specializing in AI/ML infrastructure with over 25 years of experience designing and optimizing large-scale datacenters, hybrid/multi-cloud platforms, and GPU-accelerated AI clusters. Currently at Coupang after a decade-plus tenure at Intel leading datacenter and AI infrastructure for large deployments (including 5000+ system Xeon validations and 500-node OpenStack clouds), he blends hands-on architecture, automation, and workload optimization across bare metal, VMs, and Kubernetes. He has deep expertise in lossless RDMA networks for GPU workloads, telemetry and observability stacks, distributed storage, and full-stack hardware/software co-optimization that drove multi-million dollar solutions with industry ISV/OEM partners. His background spans media streaming at scale, academic research in multi-cloud orchestration (PhD), and practical DevOps/infra-as-code practices, giving him a rare mix of operational rigor and research-driven design. Based in Seattle, he brings a pragmatic focus on performance/TCO and cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver production-ready AI platforms.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computer Science Cloud Computing, PhD in Computer Science Cloud Computing at Queen's University BelfastMaster of Technology Software Engineering, Master of Technology Software Engineering at National University of Singapore
Chinese, Malay, English
Github Skills (12)
user-stories10
openstack9
opendev5
kubelet5
irc3
continuous-integration3
kubernetes3
cicd2
devops2
monitoring1
hpc1
analytics1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/development-proposals
Oct 2015 - May 2017
MOVED: now at https://opendev.org/x/development-proposals
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 8 months
user-storiesopenstack
openstack-archive/workload-ref-archs
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
RETIRED, OpenStack tenant-level workload reference architectures. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year
openstack
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