Steve Yoo
Sr Principal Director Software Engineer at S&P Global
Brea, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Yoo is a seasoned software leader with over two decades of engineering and management experience, currently serving as Sr Principal/Director Software Engineer at S&P Global. He combines hands-on backend and ML engineering with senior leadership, guiding large teams and shipping robust systems since early roles as Development Manager and Lead Senior Developer. Steve contributes to prominent open-source projects like OpenVINO, where he has improved CPU-plugin test coverage and migrated complex tensor operations to broaden format support and optimize inference workflows. Based in Brea, California, he holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and brings a rare mix of low-level performance tuning and strategic delivery at enterprise scale. A pragmatic problem solver, he often focuses on making ML inference more reliable and testable—work that quietly accelerates production deployments.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Harvey Mudd College
Korean
Github Skills (9)
machine-learning10
c-language10
deep-learning10
cprogramming-language10
openvino10
back-end-development9
computer-vision9
performance-optimization8
tensorflow8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
openvinotoolkit/openvino
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
OpenVINO™ is an open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:134 reviews, 30 commits, 70 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Steve contributed to the OpenVINO toolkit by adding test cases for the PReLU activation function and other operations within the CPU plugin. They migrated various operations related to movement, including ScatterNDUpdate, Reverse, Split, Transpose, and VariadicSplit, adding shape and type information to tensors. Their contributions extended to the testing of constant operations, integrating new tests, and adding tests for 5D select operations and enabling bfyx and fsv32 input formats for concat, indicating involvement in optimizing and expanding the toolkit's functionalities and capabilities.
inference-enginepytorchmodel-optimizerdeep-learninggpu
steve-y/openvino
Apr 2021 - Feb 2025
OpenVINO™ Toolkit repository
Contributions:391 pushes, 94 branches in 3 years 11 months
pytorchdeep-learninggpuopenvino-toolkitcomputer-vision
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