Adam Hough is an HPC and AI infrastructure architect with 9+ years of experience designing, deploying, and managing global high-performance compute, storage, and networking environments across industry and academia. He has led multi-site hardware deliveries and large-scale refreshes that boosted compute capacity by more than 50% and achieved a 45% application performance gain through targeted infrastructure changes. Comfortable both as a hands-on systems engineer and a project manager, he drives benchmarking standardization, containerization roadmaps, and systems-management automation to improve return on investment and operational ease. At Microsoft now after steering HPC strategy at Shell and major scientific clusters at universities and energy firms, he combines operational rigor with mentorship and a knack for translating low-level hardware constraints into practical, scalable solutions. Notably, he’s experienced deploying and supporting compute in challenging remote sites like offshore vessels and international research labs, marrying field pragmatism with enterprise-grade architecture.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Louisiana Tech University
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