Peng, Andy

Builder, Technologist, Advisor.

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PNW resident. Engineer, architect, and advisor. Specializing in large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing.
Tech Lead business charters including AI, ML services and infrastructure, foundational data services, container & serverless, healthcare and financial platforms. In charge of multiple company wide privileged and confidential programs. Diverse experience encompassing both people management and technical leadership, including cross-company and multidisciplinary organizations collaborations.
Intrapreneur. Has managed, built, and scaled several tier-1 products, new initiatives 0-1, businesses, and teams spanning various technical domains. Key contributions include Amazon Bedrock (LLM Inference Anthropic AI models), S3 (Largest Distributed Storage System on Earth), App Runner (Managed Container Apps Service, Founding engineer & TLM), Fargate (Serverless Compute), Alexa (Founding engineer of Healthcare domain), Commerce Platform (Manage $110B ARR Bill Run) and cross-product line involvement in SageMaker, Lambda, ECS and Elastic Beanstalk.
Part-time advisor for VCs and startups. Public speaker, author. Guest lecturer and industry mentor at the University of Washington. Actively contributes to the open source community as a Program Committee member of The Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization, hosts Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), LF AI & Data, and PyTorch Foundation; CNCF Ambassador; Community Lead of Cloud Native Seattle; and member of Packt tech advisory board.

Research Areas (current): AI + ML, LLM Inference, Containers, Compute & Virtualization, Open Source.

Pickleball fan.

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News

December, 2024 2024 New York Times DealBook Summit | The Interview: From Amazon to Space — Jeff Bezos Talks Innovation, Progress and What’s Next
December, 2024 Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond, according to Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels
December, 2024 Estimates of GPU or equivalent resources of large AI players for 2024/5
November, 2024 WSJ | Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The DOGE Plan to Reform Government
November, 2024 20 Years of Snowflake Lane
November, 2024 Business Insider | AI can be used to create job promotion, not be a job replacement, says AWS vice president
November, 2024 Menlo Ventures | 2024: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise
November, 2024 Amazon invests $110 million to support AI research at universities using Trainium chips
November, 2024 Lenny's Podcast | A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo
November, 2024 10 Years of Serverless with AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS
November, 2024 W Day.
October, 2024 Seattle Seahawks Announce Multi-Year Partnership Extension with Amazon Web Services Press Release
October, 2024 China Entrepreneur Network - University of Washington, Seattle. Dinner With Professionals (DWP).
October, 2024 Dario Amodei - Machines of Loving Grace.
October, 2024 2024 IA40 Summit
September, 2024 PyTorch Con 2024 | Keynote Panel Discussion: Scaling & Benchmarking
September, 2024 CNBC | Anthropic Projected To Reach $1 Billion in Annualized Revenue 2024
September, 2024 United States and Eight Companies Launch the Partnership for Global Inclusivity on AI
September, 2024 CUDA MODE is meeting IRL for the first time!
August, 2024 Matt Garman shares future-forward vision, remains grounded in AWS's core values
August, 2024 Are we prepared for 'Act 2' of gen AI ? by Baskar Sridharan is VP of AWS AI/ML services and infrastructure
July, 2024 vLLM x LF AI & Data Foundation
July, 2024 Open Source AI Is the Path Forward By Mark Zuckerberg
July, 2024 2024 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Swami Sivasubramanian's keynote
July, 2024 Pickleball for All July 13-14 Seattle, WA KOMONEWS Seattle Parks Foundation Register
July, 2024 AWS Summit New York 2024 - Keynote with Matt Wood AWS Machine Learning Blog
July, 2024 Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explains 8 things you may not know about the company’s Leadership Principles
June, 2024 4 ways AWS is engineering infrastructure to power generative AI
June, 2024 How Does the Linux Foundation Work and What Does it Do?
June, 2024 OpenAI acquires Rockset OpenAI's blog post
June, 2024 Introducing our H1 2024 Cloud Native Ambassadors
June, 2024 Paul G. Allen School 2024 Graduation Celebration Commencement Speaker: Andy Jassy (President and CEO, Amazon)
June, 2024 KuberTENes Birthday Bash SAVE THE DATE!
May, 2024 UW Foster School of Business | MBA mentoring program celebrates 25th anniversary
May, 2024 AWS Summit Los Angeles 2024 - Keynote with Matt Wood
May, 2024 Amazon and Meta join the Frontier Model Forum to promote AI safety
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
April, 2024 Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon's Board of Directors
April, 2024 CEO Andy Jassy's 2023 Letter to Shareholders
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
March, 2024 GTC 2024: Transforming AI Panel. Jensen Huang, Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin.
Pi Day, 2024 AWS Pi Day 2024: Use your data to power generative AI
March, 2024 Amazon and Anthropic deepen their shared commitment to advancing generative AI Amazon News, AWS Machine Learning blog, Anthropic news blog, Dr. Matt Wood's blog post.
February, 2024 4 tech predictions for 2024 and beyond, according to Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels
January, 2024 World Economic Forum | CEO Andy Jassy talks AI strategy Meet The Leader
December, 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #405 | Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
December, 2023 At NeurIPS, what's old is new again
November, 2023 Welcome to a New Era of Building in the Cloud with Generative AI on AWS
November, 2023 RocksDB turning 10!
October, 2023 What you need to know about the AWS AI chips powering Amazon's partnership with Anthropic.
June, 2023 Bloomberg | AWS VP on Importance of Data Strategy to Pivot to AI
June, 2023 Happy 5th Birthday Amazon EKS!
May, 2023 USENIX ATC '23 | On-demand Container Loading in AWS Lambda Awarded Best Paper!
May, 2023 Celebrating Five Years of The Spheres
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
January, 2020 Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
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

Selected Publications

  1. LLM
    LLM 时代需要怎样的软件开发新范式
    Moderator: Monica Xie, ZhenFund; Speakers: 黄东旭, PingCAP co-founder & CTO, 贾扬清, Lepton AI co-founder & CEO, Andy Peng, AWS
  2. 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
  3. The open-source community at AWS
    Presenters: Phil Estes, Principal Engineer, AWS and Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
  4. Leadership
    Technical Leadership in Team Management
    Moderator: Zheng Luo, Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure; Speaker: Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
  5. KubeCon 2022
    Building Multi-Tenant Routing And Scaling With Envoy
    Presenter: Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
  6. 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
  7. New Feature Launch on AWS App Runner
    Moderator: Adam Keller, Senior Technologist, AWS; Speaker: Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS

Service

  • Mentor
  • Program Committee
    • KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024, North America 2024, Europe 2024, China 2024, North America 2023, Europe 2023
    • PyTorch Con 2024
    • Open Source Summit Europe 2024, China 2024, North America 2024, Europe 2023
    • Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Japan 2024, China 2024, Europe 2024
    • Southern California Linux Expo 2024, 2023
  • Staff
    • KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 - 2021
    • CVPR 2024, NeurIPS 2019 and IndexConf 2023
  • Guest Speaker
  • Recruiting Team - Technical Interviewer
    • Grace Hopper Celebration 2021, 2020