PNW local. Seasoned software product builder and technologist (TL) based in Seattle (WA). Engineer, architect and technical advisor. Public speaker and book author . Specialized in large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing (AI, ML services & infrastructure, 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 (Partner with Anthropic AI the Claude families' model inference on Bedrock and launching new intelligent models)
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
And Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Elastic Beanstalk etc.
Open-source engagements: Kubernetes, Envoy, OpenTelemtry, containerd; Firecracker; Kafka; RocksDB..
Pickleball fan.
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Open Source SummitProgram Committee : Open AI + Data Forum (EU24 ), Open AI + Data Forum (China2024), Open AI + Data Forum and CloudOpen (NA24 ), CloudOpen (EU23 )
Open Source GenAI & ML SummitProgram Committee : China2024, EU2024
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Program Committee : Emerging + Advanced (EU24), Emerging + Advanced (China2024), SDLC (NA23), Runtime Performance + Constrained Environments (EU23); Speaker : Service Mesh (NA22); Staff (NA21, NA20, NA19)
PyTorch Con Program Committee : 2024
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)
Wo(men) In Tech Regatta Guest Speaker (2023)
NeurIPS (2019 )
CVPR (2024 )
IndexConf (2023)
WASMCON (Rust Global ) (2023)
News
August, 2024 - Matt Garman shares future-forward vision, remains grounded in AWS's core values
August, 2024 - An Artificial Intelligence Conversation With Andrew Ng
August, 2024 - Build custom generative AI applications powered by Amazon Bedrock by Vasi Philomin
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
July, 2024 - A quick guide to Amazon’s papers at ICML 2024
July, 2024 - Serverless State of the Union by Holly Mesrobian, VP Serverless Compute, AWS, and Julian Wood, Developer Experience, AWS
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 Machine Learning Blog | Empowering everyone with GenAI to rapidly build, customize, and deploy apps securely: Highlights from the AWS New York Summit Keynote with Matt Wood:
July, 2024 - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explains 8 things you may not know about the company’s Leadership Principles
July, 2024 - CNBC | AWS CEO Matt Garman breaks down the company’s AI strategy
June, 2024 - Build generative AI applications on Amazon Bedrock — the secure, compliant, and responsible foundation by Vasi Philomin
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 - ‘You write your own story’: Allen School celebrates the graduating class of 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 - 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
May, 2024 - AWS sees $100 billion annual run rate as generative AI already provides "a multi-billion dollar" contribution
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
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.
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
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 - Shift AI Podcast: Laying the bedrock for generative AI at Amazon with AWS VP Vasi Philomin
November, 2023 - RocksDB turning 10!
October, 2023 - What you need to know about the AWS AI chips powering Amazon's partnership with Anthropic.
October, 2023 - The Future of Generative AI: Exploring the Impact of Amazon Bedrock with Atul Deo
September, 2023 - Claude on Amazon Bedrock now available to every AWS customer
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
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