Seungwoo Son
VP Of Applied AI at Wealth.com
Nampa, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeungwoo Son is a VP of Applied AI with nine years of experience building production AI and cloud infrastructure, currently applying LLMs to transform estate planning at Wealth.com. Previously he led AI/ML efforts at Microsoft across Bing verticals—driving generative AI, search/ranking, recommendation, and chatbot work that scaled features to millions of users and delivered measurable engagement gains. He combines research-grade modeling (papers and novel models like User2Vec) with hands-on engineering across SDKs, Terraform, and Azure provider improvements, contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as the Azure SDK for Go and the Azure RM Terraform provider. A former UN peacekeeper awarded for operational leadership, he brings uncommon discipline and program management experience to technical product delivery. He mentors globally (IE/UC Berkeley connections) and balances rigorous experimentation with production-grade automation and reliability.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyClass Valedictorian, Class Valedictorian at SSIS | Suzhou Singapore International School
Korean, English, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
scripting10
azure-sdk10
bash10
swagger10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
azure-cli10
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
go10
resource-manager10
arm10
infrastructure-as-code10
rest-api10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/terraform
Jan 2018 - Jul 2020
Source code for the Azure Marketplace Terraform development VM package.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Seungwoo primarily focused on setting up and configuring infrastructure for an Azure-based Terraform environment. Their contributions included scripting the installation and configuration of necessary tools like Terraform and the Azure CLI. They also automated the creation of Azure resources, configured remote state storage, and handled environment variable setup, with an emphasis on integrating MSI (Managed Service Identity) for authentication. Additionally, the user added retry logic and updated dependencies in the infrastructure scripts.
marketplaceazure-marketplaceazure-resource-managerazureterraform-provider
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1017 reviews, 368 commits, 448 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Seungwoo's commits primarily focused on improving the Azure Resource Manager provider for Azure Resource Manager. This included fixing issues, adding new features such as a SKU upgrade test, and updating documentation. The user's contributions involved modifications to resource definitions, testing, and implementing changes to the underlying infrastructure as code, with a focus on supporting functionalities like managing container registries and MySQL/PostgreSQL databases. Further commits involved code changes to enhance the performance and functionality of the services.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
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