THON Sopheap

THON Sopheap

Master Student
Department of Big Data, Chungbuk National University
Big Data DevOps Cloud Infrastructure Applied AI

Academic Background

  • Current: Master's Degree in Big Data Engineering, Chungbuk National University, South Korea
  • Bachelor's Degree: SETEC Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
  • Professional Training:
    • Certificate Course in Quantum Computing, New Delhi, India
    • Huawei Cloud HCS Training, Guizhou and Hangzhou, China
    • Information Security Principles Related to Cryptocurrency, Seoul, South Korea
    • Computer Software Engineering, Korean Software HRD Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Professional Experience

  • Current: Researcher, AI Convergence Lab, Chungbuk National University
    • Big data engineering and applied AI
  • Previously: DevOps Engineer, Digital Government Committee, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
    • Cloud infrastructure for government digital services, from provisioning through day-to-day operations
    • Automated deployment and release processes across environments
    • Reliability and reproducibility of public-facing systems in production

Research Focus

His interests sit at the meeting point of large-scale data engineering and applied artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on the infrastructure that lets research systems run reliably outside the lab.

  • Big Data Engineering: Designing pipelines that collect, process, and serve large-scale datasets
  • MLOps and Deployment: Moving models from experiment to dependable production services
  • Applied Artificial Intelligence: Solving real-world problems with AI, particularly in public sector settings
  • Large Language Models: Practical integration of LLMs into data-driven applications
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Scalable, automated environments for research and production workloads

Technical Expertise

  • Cloud Infrastructure: Designing and operating workloads across Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services
  • Infrastructure as Code: Reproducible provisioning and configuration with Terraform and Ansible
  • Containers and Orchestration: Deploying and scaling services on Kubernetes
  • CI/CD and Automation: Automated build, test, and release pipelines on GitHub
  • Programming: Go, JavaScript, and Bash for backend services and operational tooling