PNW local. Seasoned software product builder / technology leader (TL) based in Seattle (WA). Technical advisor. Public speaker and book author. Specialized in large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing (GenAI/AI/ML, foundational data services, containers, and serverless computing etc., open-source). Diverse experience encompassing both people management and technical leadership, including cross-company and multidisciplinary organizations collaborations. Community Lead of Cloud Native Seattle, CNCF Ambassador @LinuxFoundation; Packt tech advisory board. Guest lecturer and industry mentor @UW .

Manage, build, and scale several tier-1 products, new initiatives, businesses and teams spanning various technical domains:

• Amazon Bedrock: The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models. GenAI MaaS
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3): Object storage built to retrieve any amount of data from anywhere. Data (TL one of the top 2 profitable divisions)
• AWS App Runner: Managed Container Apps Service. Compute Containers PaaS (TL a division of 70, Founding engineer & TLM)
• AWS Fargate: Serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine. Compute Containers
• Amazon Alexa AI/ML NLU (Founding engineer of Healthcare domain)
• And Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Elastic Beanstalk etc.

Open-source engagements: Kubernetes, Envoy, OpenTelemtry, containerd; Firecracker; Kafka; RocksDB..

Pickleball fan.

[Links]

• AWS Blog author page
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador page
• Open Source Summit Program Committee page
• Open Source Summit GenAI & ML Summit Program Committee page
• Seattle Women in Tech Regatta speaker page

[Read more Publications | Projects | Professional Experience]

Selected Publications

• Transforming AI: Modern Business Redefine
  University of Washington
  Guest Lecturer: Andy Peng, Amazon
• New Era of Generative AI and Building in the Cloud
  University of Washington
  Guest Lecturer: Andy Peng, Amazon
• Seattle Women in Tech Regatta 2023 | Myth-Busting Tech Trends
  Moderators: Padmaja Vrudhula, VP Industry Vertical Workload Solutions, Snowflake; Speakers: Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS, Morgan Zion, CEO, Alpha Girl Club, Caroline Williams, Founder, The Do Good Only Company
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 | The open-source community at AWS: containerd and Envoy More reads
  AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
  Presenters: Phil Estes, Principal Engineer, AWS and Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
• CUC Meetup | Technical Leadership in Team Management
  Moderator: Zheng Luo, Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure; Speaker: Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 | Building Multi-Tenant Routing And Scaling With Envoy
  DETROIT, MICHIGAN
  Presenter: Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
• DockerCon x Container Day | How Developers can get to production web applications at scale easily |
  Presenters: Clarinda Mascarenhas, Sr. Container Specialist, AWS and Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
• Containers from the Couch | AWS App Runner X-Ray Integration
  Moderator: Adam Keller, Senior Technologist, AWS; Speaker: Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
• Blog | Horizontal Auto Scaling in Serverless Containers
• AWS Blog | Enabling AWS X-Ray tracing for AWS App Runner service using AWS Copilot CLI
• AWS Blog | Observability for AWS App Runner VPC networking
• AWS Blog | Tracing an AWS App Runner service using AWS X-Ray with OpenTelemetry

Services

• Wo(men) In Tech Regatta
  Guest Speaker (2023)
• Open Source Summit
  Program Committee: Open AI + Data Forum and CloudOpen (NA24), CloudOpen (EU23)
  
• Open Source GenAI & ML Summit
  Program Committee: EU2024
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
  Program Committee: Emerging & Advanced (EU24), SDLC (NA23), Runtime Performance + Constrained Environments(EU23); Speaker: Service Mesh (NA22); Staff (NA21, NA20, NA19)
• Southern California Linux Expo
  Program Committee: Cloud Native Open Source AI and Applied Science (SCaLE21x)
• DockerCon
  Speaker (2022)
• Grace Hopper Celebration
  Technical Recruiting (2021, 2020)
• NeurIPS (2019)
• IndexConf (2023)
• WASMCON (Rust Global) (2023)

News

• June, 2024 - KuberTENes Birthday Bash SAVE THE DATE!
• May, 2024 - Keynote Fifteen years of formal methods at AWS Marc Brooker
• May, 2024 - Adam Selipsky on why AWS's cloud growth was a standout in earning reports
• May, 2024 - AWS sees $100 billion annual run rate as generative AI already provides "a multi-billion dollar" contribution
• April, 2024 - Race For AI Isn't Zero-sum, Says Amazon Cloud Boss
• April, 2024 - GeekWire Podcast: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the rapid progress of AI, and its impact on society
• April, 2024 - CNBC sat down with Matt Wood, VP of Artificial Intelligence at Amazon, to discuss Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic
• April, 2024 - Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon’s Board of Directors
• April, 2024 - CEO Andy Jassy’s 2023 Letter to Shareholders
• April, 2024 - AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024: Accelerate innovation with generative AI on AWS
• April, 2024 - Amazon is teaming up with NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and the University of Tsukuba in Japan to push the boundaries of AI innovation, UW joins $110M cross-Pacific effort to advance artificial intelligence
• April, 2024 - AWS and Mistral AI commit to democratizing generative AI with a strengthened collaboration
• March, 2024 - Amazon and Anthropic deepen their shared commitment to advancing generative AI
• March, 2024 - Amazon is one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in North America for 2024, specifically highlighting Amazon Bedrock from Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• March, 2024 - GTC 2024: Transforming AI Panel. Jensen Huang, Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin.
• March, 2024 - AWS and NVIDIA extend their collaboration to advance generative AI
• Pi Day, 2024 - AWS Pi Day 2024: Use your data to power generative AI
• March, 2024 - Unlocking Innovation: AWS and Anthropic push the boundaries of generative AI together Amazon News, AWS Machine Learning blog, Anthropic news blog, Dr. Matt Wood's blog post, AWS News blog
• March, 2024 - Mistral AI models now available on Amazon Bedrock
• February, 2024 - 4 tech predictions for 2024 and beyond, according to Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels
• January, 2024 - Meet The Leader, This simple question helped Amazon teams get future ready: AWS AI and data chief
• January, 2024 - CEO Andy Jassy talks AI strategy in Davos
• December, 2023 - Bloomberg | How Amazon Is Tackling Generative AI
• December, 2023 - At NeurIPS, what's old is new again
• December, 2023 - AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications'
• November, 2023 - Welcome to a New Era of Building in the Cloud with Generative AI on AWS
• November, 2023 - AWS and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Collaboration to Offer New Supercomputing Infrastructure, Software and Services for Generative AI Press Release
• November, 2023 - AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
• November, 2023 - Shift AI Podcast: Laying the bedrock for generative AI at Amazon with AWS VP Vasi Philomin
• November, 2023 - RocksDB turning 10!
• October, 2023 - The Future of Generative AI: Exploring the Impact of Amazon Bedrock with Atul Deo
• September, 2023 - New developer tools to build LLM-powered experiences with Alexa
• September, 2023 - AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Bedrock and powerful new offerings to accelerate generative AI innovation
• June, 2023 - Bloomberg | AWS VP on Importance of Data Strategy to Pivot to AI
• June, 2023 - Happy 5th Birthday Amazon EKS!
• May, 2023 - Learn How to Modernize Your Applications at AWS Serverless Innovation Day
• May, 2023 - USENIX ATC '23 | On-demand Container Loading in AWS Lambda Awarded Best Paper!
• April, 2023 - AWS at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
• April, 2023 - AWS announces Amazon Bedrock and multiple generative AI services and capabilities
• Pi Day, 2023 - Celebrate Amazon S3’s 17th birthday at AWS Pi Day 2023
• March, 2023 - USENIX FAST '23 | Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
• November, 2022 - Happy 5th birthday AWS Fargate!!
• October, 2022 - AWS at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
• October, 2022 - ECS and App Runner Happy Hour and Networking Event
• September, 2022 - Developer Summit: App Runner
• May, 2022 - AWS open source news and updates, #113
• May, 2022 - AWS Observability Recipes for App Runner now "Fresh out".👨‍🍳
• April, 2022 - AWS Container Day with Docker open for registration.
• April, 2022 - Save the date: AWS Containers events in May
• April, 2022 - AWS Week in Review – April 18, 2022
• June, 2021 - InfoQ | Q&A with AWS VP of Compute Services Deepak Singh about AWS App Runner
• November, 2019 - New ways to manage your medications at home using Alexa
• November, 2019 - Alexa at five: Looking back, looking forward
• Pi Day, 2016 - CELEBRATING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMAZON WEB SERVICES , 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

Certificates (recent)

• Generative AI with Large Language Models ✅, issued by DeepLearning.AI
• AWS Knowledge: Serverless ✅, issued by AWS