Heungsub Lee

Contact
heungsub@subl.ee
Web Sites
subl.ee, github.com/sublee, linkedin.com/in/sublee

Interests

Skills

Programming Languages
Go, Python, JavaScript, Bash
ML Engineering
PyTorch, data or pipeline parallelism, Triton Inference Server, NVIDIA Nsight Systems
Back-end Development
Linux, K8s, AWS, Terraform, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, etcd, ZeroMQ

Work Experience

Software Engineering Manager
Clova in Naver, 2020–
Develops AI-based products and services.

Lead 25 software engineers developing MLOps platforms.

Designed and developed NSML an ML research platform on HPC infrastructures, focused on large-scale AI models.

Developed an inference API and checkpoint preprocessing tools for HyperCLOVA, which is a Korean variant of 82B GPT-3.

Software Engineer
Kakao Brain, 2018–2020
An AI research subsidiary of Kakao.

Focused on parallel training of convolutional neural networks, including large-scale data parallelism and pipeline parallelism. Developed and published a pipeline parallelism library in PyTorch named torchgpipe.

Developed a serverless training framework and a distributed hyperparameter search platform for an AutoML service.

Game Server Engineer
Nexon, 2011–2018
Develops and publishes online video games.

Developed cloud-based distributed game servers for Durango (MMORPG) that communicate with each other by pub/sub over the spatial grid system. This game achieved up to 70k concurrent users per game world.

Developed game servers for KartRider Dash & Coin Rush (online racing games) which synchronize racing game players in real-time.

Researched rating systems such as Elo, Glicko, and TrueSkill to develop a matchmaker.

Led 15 game server engineers.

Web Developer
Npine, 2008–2011
Supplies stock images for business on Iclickart.
Developed web services from scratch. Maintained on-premise Linux servers.
Front-end Web Developer
Lunant, 2008–2011
Served social media named VLAAH.
Designed and implemented the UI/UX for social media.

Open Source Experience

torchgpipe, 2019–2020
A GPipe implementation in PyTorch.

Implemented GPipe in PyTorch with optimization for CUDA, PyTorch’s autograd engine, and long skip connections. GPipe is a scalable pipeline parallelism library for the training of a giant model.

This project has become a part of PyTorch. The story behind it can be found on Kakao Brain Blogko and the technical report.

Hangulize, 2010–
Automatically transcribes a non-Korean word into Hangul.

Implemented an automatic Hangul transcription algorithm to realize Brian Jongseong Park’s idea. Designed and implemented the web service and RESTful API.

Many professional Korean translators habitually use this tool to translate undocumented proper nouns. Netflix refers to this tool in the Korean timed-text style guide.

TrueSkill, 2012–
A TrueSkill™ implementation in Python.
Implemented TrueSkill™, which is a rating algorithm for Xbox Live, in Python with a handy interface. This project was introduced in PyData Berlin 2019.
Profiling, 2014–2018
An interactive profiler for Python inspired by the Unity3D profiler.
Developed a Python profiler with an interactive TUI inspired by the Unity profiler. On GitHub, this project has been starred by 3k people. Also, it was the 3rd daily trending repository on Sep 22, 2014.
Others
Contributions
  • For PyTorch, fixed potential GPU memory violation (#27371); deprecated inconsistent API (#21006, #25985); discussed a counterintuitive behavior of the autograd engine (#18568).
  • For ZeroMQ, discussed a PUB socket crash (#2942).
  • For Flask, fixed a bug to generate a URL with a subdomain (#108).
  • For jQuery 1.4.3, restored a missing part of the content negotiation header for Ajax.

Publications

*Contributed equally.

Public Speeches

Languages

Education

Computer Software, Kwangwoon University, 2008 – completed the first year only