서진호

Contact Info: Jinho Seo, Contact: synabreu@outlook.com

Professional Summary

With over 25 years of experience across the PC, web, mobile, cloud, and AI industries, I most recently served as a Senior AI Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions Architect at HPE. At HPE, I led enterprise AI transformation initiatives across the APAC & India regions, focusing on HPE Cray XD–based data center and AI hardware infrastructure, including GPUs, storage, network fabrics, and large-scale distributed training and inference systems. I leverage strong technical leadership to deliver measurable business outcomes through executive advisory, technical evangelism, software ecosystem adoption, and partner ecosystem collaboration, with a proven track record of driving impact over eight years at Microsoft.

Work Expriences

Sr. HPC&AI Presales – Solution Architect, APAC & India, HPE – 2023. 10 ~ 2025.01

  • Assessed clients’ business needs and challenges to craft customized proposals utilizing generative AI solutions and delivered compelling presentations to expand visibility for large-scale HPC and AI hardware and software deals in the financial, public sectors, and research areas, focusing on the Korean IT market, which contributed to revenue growth.
  • Led the adoption and sales of HPE Cray XD’s hyperscale data center hardware/software solutions, providing technical support to enterprise customers to resolve HPC challenges, while designing and executing Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to validate the effectiveness of large-scale AI solutions based on HPE AI/LLM software (HPE MLDM, MLDE Gen AI Studio, MLIS) for multi-GPU configurations.
  • Collaborated with the HPC & AI sales team to develop strategies that maximize hardware and software value, actively engaged with enterprise customers and H/W·S/W partners, and served as a technical speaker at NVIDIA-HPE AI Workshops and joint events with Intel and AMD.
  • Proven experience in engaging with enterprise customers and HW/SW partners, promoting advanced HPE and NVIDIA technologies, and fostering adoption of innovative solutions by leveraging HPE Cray Systems based on NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software covering NVIDIA NIM, Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM. Nemo Framework.
  • Leveraged NCCL’s key communication patterns, including All-Reduce and All-to-All, to synchronize model parameters and exchange partial model weights across multiple GPUs in a multi-node setup. This approach significantly enhanced the efficiency of distributed training, enabling faster convergence and optimized resource utilization for large-scale deep learning models.
  • Extended single GPU code to multi-node using the Determined Trial API for HPE MLDE, implemented a checkpoint recovery strategy with AWS/GCP Spot Instances, leveraging HPE MLDE’s automatic fault tolerance, and implemented an automated HPO pipeline by showing the demo of the ASHA (Adaptive Successive Halving) algorithm on HPE MLDE.
  • Designed architecture for a heterogeneous cluster environment by separating Kubernetes and Slurm and implemented an HPE MLDE abstraction layer on the Slurm backend to improve the utilization of existing HPC resources.
  • Demonstrated a workflow where models trained in MLDE are automatically converted to ONNX format and deployed to KServe in MLIS for inference, improving operational efficiency by 50% and ensuring stable service scalability, effectively addressing deployment delays caused by the separation of model training, serving, and inference environments.
  • Translated and analyzed the core architecture of the HPE Slingshot network fabric, compared it with NVIDIA InfiniBand and Spectrum-X to highlight key differences, and developed Korean technical white papers and proposals to present the advantages and unique capabilities of each network solution for high-performance computing environments.
  • Proposed storage architecture features for HPE Cray ClusterStor E1000/E2000 systems, based on the open-source Lustre parallel file system, certified with GPUDirectStorage to ensure ultra-low-latency data access and prevent GPU idle times in the Exascale era. Additionally, compared and positioned these features against WEKA, VAST Data, DDN EXAScaler, and IBM Spectrum Scale.
  • Rapidly prototyped multi-agent systems integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases across hybrid cloud environments and delivered hands-on demonstrations of Agentic AI frameworks and vLLM to enterprise clients, accelerating the adoption of cutting-edge LLM solutions.

Head of Data & AI Solutions Architect, Softleaf – 2022. 12 ~ 2023.09

  • Led a team of 12 solution developers and AWS infrastructure engineers to improve operational efficiency, to resolve operational management issues related to AWS infrastructure environment in team projects, and to monitor audit and visibility controls using CloudWatch Logs and Metrics.
  • Modernized a monolithic architecture into a container-based structure using AWS ECS and built a DevOps (CI/CD) pipeline with GitLab, AWS Code Pipeline, and Jenkins, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes while significantly improving availability and operational stability.
  • Architected Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing configurations to support elastic traffic patterns and high availability and implemented blue/green and rolling deployment strategies to enable zero-downtime releases.
  • Consulted enterprise clients across various industries on cloud-based Big Data and AI strategies, cost optimization, and governance guidelines, establishing long-term strategic partnerships through direct collaboration with C-level executives.
  • Provided guidelines for building an end-to-end automated MLOps using MLflow and Kubeflow within Amazon SageMaker, significantly accelerating model development cycles and improving productivity and consistency for data scientists.

AI/ML Solution Consulting, Self-employed – 2017. 06 ~ 2022. 10

  • Lead HR AI Match Projects and SK Hynix Semiconductor yield verification test based-on computer vision POC Projects using Active learning and auto-labeling. Presented the best AI case in SK Icheon Subforum 2021 with SK C&C Platform Biz Team.
  • Instructed the lectures as the University Summer/Winter season Instructor from the basics of cloud computing to Amazon EC2, Containers and Virtualization (Kubernetes, Docker), Python-based data analytics, and Arduino-based IoT.
  • Filmed 60 online webcast lectures for re-employment audiences in collaboration with the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Public Sector Division of MegaZone. The main topics covered AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, VPC, Kubernetes) and Google Cloud’s big data analysis (Google Cloud ETL, BigQuery (SQL/ML), Vertex AI (Python/TensorFlow)).
  • Published Monthly Report for NIA Korea Intelligent Information Society Agency and AI hub of the Ministry of Science and ICT/NIA Korea Intelligent Information Society Promotion Agency regarding Cloud/machine learning quality management and monitoring, labeling data for artificial intelligence training, Google AI research papers.

Sr. Technical Evangelist-Mobile/Embedded, D&PE, Microsoft Korea — 2005.12 ~ 2012.9

  • Created value for customers, key channel partners, ISV partners, Big Solution agencies by having relationship to build a joint plan with identified objectives, milestones and metrics need to exceed their goals (KPI/ROI) with Samsung SDS, LG CNS on executing enterprise solution campaigns. e.g., Monthly seminars, On-site conferences, Early-Morning Breakfast Technical Briefing, Proof-of- Concept (PoC) project, joint development of solutions and services architecture meeting.
  • Guided IT executives as the trusted advisor of the full value of the cloud, and helped them staff, trained and aligned customers and partners to deliver on their large-scale cloud transformation solutions by deploying business cases and technical training contents, Hands-on coding tutorials and demonstration codes in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies (C#, SQL, Windows Azure) and Universal App Development, Azure Infrastructure and platform mobile cloud services with SK T- Academy, MDS Academy and Cloud MSP. Resulted in 20% YoY Increasing .NET projects and developers.
  • Contributed to grow sales revenues for cross-selling and up-selling of Visual Studio Tools by 3% YoY by overcoming business and technical challenges and long-term strategic relationships with 50 key accounts to demonstrate new Visual C++ features, Visual Studio for .NET Mobile solutions, especially the Communication Sectors (Samsung, LG Display, Hynix).
  • Drove an engagement at the CXO levels for customer’s business within their devices and carrier’s ecosystem and developed strategic roadmaps by executing co-promoting with SKT/Samsung Electronics and KT/Nokia by contributing to publishing Top/Feature apps by +1K apps. E.g., Windows Mobile App Development Contests with SKT/Samsung Electronics, KT/Nokia, LG, and HTC. Webinars, webcasts and social media campaigns, App Hackathons, 3rd Party meetups, pitching ideas to start- ups campaigns. Resulted to achieve the outstanding WW ranking of 1st selling smartphones 2009 by +1M devices.
  • Provided thought leadership of the Phone/Embedded & Windows Azure Cloud by developing the marketing technology program, launching new products and go-to-market sales strategy, and gaining the required support to execute territory coverage programs. academic curriculum adopting in special cases with promotion of Public Sectors Sales.
  • Advised and incubated the next Microsoft developers and influencers who are 100 MVPs/Community leaders/Developer experts as part of the Microsoft tech trainers and advocate speakers by engaging in C#/Java/Windows CE/Azure Cloud developer communities, Microsoft Student Partners. Resulting in the final winners of Imagine Cup 2006, 2009, 2010.
  • Thrived in a fast-paced dynamic environment with limited direction, balancing competing priorities, and managing several time-sensitive projects simultaneously by diffusing customers best cases and app templates integrating on Windows Phone, Windows 8 UX styles, Windows Azure Cloud to offline and online as social networks channels (blogs, books, MSDN, Twitter, Facebook) with developer’s audience managers and product marketing team.

Mobile Application Team Lead, .NET Soft — 2001.09 ~ 2005. 08

  • Role - Managed a team of 6 software engineers and collaborated with business leaders to execute large-scale B2B cloud-based applications, focused on ERP, SCM, and mobile data synchronization.
  • Solving from mobile data synchronization and multi-devices management using N-tired Service Oriented Architecture based on .NET Framework (C#), MS-SQL/SQLCE, Oracle, SOA (Web Service), PocketPC (PDA), and Windows Phone Phones by executing Mobile B2B LOB, ERP, SCM SI Projects. E.g., Lotte Data Communication R&D Center, GS E&C, Daerim/Woorim Construction, Lotte Confectionery/Samkang, Lotte Mart, SCD Pharmacy, and Samsung Life.
  • Deployed .NET Mobile SFA Application by the number of 150 and increased the revenues by 10% YoY by applying .NET Application architecture pattern of synchronizing data from ERP to MAS (Mobile Application Server) offline and printing receipts real-time to storekeepers on Lotte SamKang Foods. In the case of Lotte Confectionery, extended to deploy Fujitsu’s 2,000 PDAs for SFA by solving automatic Mobile Apps version-up using .NET Assembly based on Windows CE.NET.
  • Solved to increase the usages of Lotte employees by transforming and turning Mobile Groupware into digital dashboard, Internet Portal, Knowledge Management system on mobile web browser with Lotte Data Communication R&D research and Microsoft Consulting Service.

Web Developer, Syntek Information System – 1999. 08 – 2000.8

  • Role - Implemented Web Application like shopping mall and B2B LOB SI Projects by designing 3-tired web application architecture based on MS Windows Server (IIS) Platform at many large-size companies like WoongJin.com, Daewoo Shopping Mall and LG MRP/MRO Business workflow system.
  • Increased secured web traffic by 15% by implementing web-based gateway/configuration system including HTTP spam filtering/monitoring demon services of Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) on Set-top box associated with future system R&D team based on Linux Tomcat Server and SQLite.
  • Solved to customers on-demand needs by canceling or returning or exchanging orders through tellers and developing web-based telephony integration system regarding log-on tracking, web chatting, after service call notification on Daewoo Hi-Mart shopping mall.
  • Solved to implement MRP (Material Requirement Planning) Bidding/Procurement, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Operation) catalog document/digital payment based on X4Mall e- commerce engine (DTD/XML/XSLT) using event-driven message architecture on MS Message Queue and Site Server (B2B workflow, e-commerce marketplace) on LG Electronics.

Software Engineer – V3Pro’95/97, Ahn Lab – 1995. 12 ~ 1997.02

  • Designed and implemented Personal Security desktop application interfacing between anti-virus engine and user interface on Windows 95/97.

Education

  • Franklin University Switzerland, Switzerland – MBA of Artificial Intelligence, 2024
  • Seoul School of Integrated Sciences & Technologies (aSSIST), Korea – Master of Science AI, 2023
  • Stanford University, USA — Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate, 2017
  • Soongsil Cyber University, Korea - Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Transferred. 2009

Certifications

  • NVIDIA Base Command Manager Administration Software, NVIDIA, 2026
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Generative AI Professional, Oracle, 2025
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 AI Foundations Associate, Oracle, 2025
  • NVIDIA Certified Associate: AI Infrastructure and Operations, NVIDIA, 2024
  • NVIDIA AI Advisor – Technical Sales, NVIDIA, 2024
  • HPE AI WW Ambassador, HPE Sales Certified – AI and AS-a-Service Solutions, HPE, 2024
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty by Amazon Web Services, 2021

Honors & Awards

  • Microsoft MCB Asia Star Awards – Korea Team, Microsoft, 2010
  • Microsoft C&O Champions Club Award – Harmony, Microsoft, 2010
  • Korea Software Development grand prize Award – V3Pro’97, The Ministry of Information and Communication. South Korea. 1996

Books Publishing

Papers

  • Upstage Start-up: Analysis of destructive AI Startup Strategy based on new generative AI Platform, Business Paper of AI Strategic Management master’s degree, assist university, 2024

Articles & Columns