Hugo Affaticati

Meet Hugo

Data-driven engineer setting industry-leading records in enterprise AI training and inference at scale.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer II at Microsoft Azure
Technical Lead of Azure AI Benchmarking Team
Author of technical articles with 150K+ cumulative reads, featured in VentureBeat, HPCwire, and Signal65

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Hugo Affaticati

Hugo Affaticati (he/him)

Portfolio

⚡ Industry-Leading Inference Performance

🧠 Record-Breaking AI Training at Scale

🌐 Pioneering AI Developements in the Cloud

🔍 Industry Benchmarking Standards

  • Spearheaded the Azure AI Benchmarking Guide, a widely-referenced validation suite setting performance baselines of infrastructures (NVIDIA and AMD hardware) for AI production workloads.

Current mentees

Latest content

Latest publication: Performance at Scale: The Role of Interconnects in Azure HPC & AI Infrastructure
Azure High Performance Computing Blog, Jun 25, 2025
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Latest video: Live from GTC: Breaking Inference Records on Azure
Hallway Track interview series
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