Summary
Yih 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