Peng, Andy
Builder, Researcher, Technologist, Advisor.
PNW resident (📍 Seattle, WA). Engineer, researcher, architect, and advisor. Specializing in machine learning, large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing.
UTL & Intrapreneur. Building basic services. Has managed and led both 0-to-1 innovation and 10x product scaling across diverse verticals: Amazon SageMaker & Bedrock (LLM), S3, App Runner & Fargate, Alexa Health & Wellness (Conversational AI) and cross-product line involvement in Lambda, ECS and Elastic Beanstalk. In charge of multiple company wide privileged and confidential programs. Diverse experience encompassing both technical leadership and people management, including cross-company and multidisciplinary organizations collaborations.
Committed to contributing to academia like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD etc., as well as to Non-Profit Organizations like the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Guest lecturer and mentor at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. AI2 Incubator Resident Expert.
Be concise, be curious, be real, and building primitives.
Research Areas
machine learning
agentic ai
LLM inference and optimization
model evaluation and benchmark
serverless containers & virtualization
open source
Links
Projects
0 → 1
SageMaker & Bedrock
App Runner & Fargate
Alexa Health & Wellness
10x
SageMaker & Bedrock
S3
Payments ($110B ARR)
scientific
speculative decoding
multi-turn speechlet
telecommunication
OSS
MCP
vLLM
PyTorch
FSDP
Docker
K8s
Kafka
OpenTelemetry
EnvoyProxy
Firecracker
Git
Paid Service
Fan of Orca, Pickleball, Seattle Kraken, Seahawk, Kosaku Shima, Lorde, Quentin Tarantino, Herman Melville. Collecting magnets and mugs.