Hugo Shi

About Hugo Shi

I\'m Hugo Shi, CTO & Founder of Saturn Cloud.For 15+ years I\'ve built and operated large-scale data science and machine learning systems in Python. Today, my focus is helping ML/AI teams run training, inference, and experimentation on any GPU cloud with far less operational overhead.Saturn Cloud is not a GPU cloud provider.We’re the platform layer teams install on top of clouds like Nebius, Crusoe, CoreWeave, and others to run distributed training, notebooks, pipelines, and production workflows securely and efficiently.Because of this, I spend a lot of time evaluating GPU cloud performance, pricing, networking, availability, and real-world constraints. We talk with teams every week who are navigating AI infra choices.If you\'re comparing GPU clouds or planning large AI workloads, I\'m always happy to share insights or point you in the right direction.Join data scientists and ML/AI engineers using Saturn Cloud: saturncloud.io@Saturn_Cloud

Experience

1. Founder

   Saturn Cloud

   Apr 2019 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Saturn Cloud is an AI development platform that enables teams to build and launch models, with their favorite tools.Deploy Saturn Cloud into Nebius, Crusoe, AWS, Azure, Oracle, Google, your very own cloud, or on-premise.We have users, including NVIDIA, CFA Institute, Snowflake, Flatiron School, Nestle, and more.Saturn Cloud is backed by NVIDIA, SignalFire and Outsiders Fund.

Education

• University of Michigan

  PhD, Electrical Engineering

  2003 — 2008

• University of California, Berkeley

  B.S., EECS

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Software Development
• Python
• Trading Systems
• Unix
• High Performance Computing
• Numerical Analysis
• Javascriptmvc
• Linux
• Quantitative Finance
• Algorithms
• Javascript
• Machine Learning
• Scientific Computing
• High Performance Computing (Hpc)
• Matlab
• Numpy
• Data Visualization
• Signal Processing
• C
• D3.js
• Distributed Systems
• C++
• Java
• Django