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 AI & 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.
Beyond the marketing talks and blog posts arranged by my company, I also write personal blogs on topics I find interesting at pengandy.com/blog.
Be concise, be curious, be real, and building primitives.
Research Areas
machine learning
agentic ai
model customization & inference optimization
model evaluation and benchmark
serverless containers & virtualization
open source
Personal Studio
Fan of Orca, Pickleball, Seattle Kraken, Seahawk, Kosaku Shima, Lorde, Quentin Tarantino, Herman Melville. Collecting magnets and mugs.