Peng, Andy
Builder, Researcher, Technologist, Advisor.

PNW resident. Engineer, researcher, architect, and advisor. Specializing in large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing.
UTL business charters including AI, ML, data, container & serverless, health & wellness and fintech. 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.
Intrapreneur. Has managed, built, and scaled several tier-1 products, new initiatives 0-1, businesses, and departments spanning various technical domains. Key contributions include Amazon Bedrock
, S3
, App Runner
(Serverless Compute, Founding engineer & TLM), Fargate, Alexa AI (Founding engineer of Healthcare domain), Commerce Platform (Scale $110B ARR Bill Run) and cross-product line involvement in SageMaker, Lambda, ECS and Elastic Beanstalk.
Part-time advisor, speaker and 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; CNCF Ambassador; Community Lead of Cloud Native Seattle; and member of Packt tech advisory board.
Research Areas (current): AI + ML, LLM Inference, Model Evaluation and Benchmark, Containers, Serverless Compute & Virtualization, Open Source.
Seattle Kraken fan.
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Mentor
- UWash. Foster School of Business Undergraduate; Master of Science programs 2024 academic year
- AWS AI/ML Mentor Scholarship Program 2024
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Program Committee / Reviewer
- ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning) 2025
- ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations) 2025
- 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 2025, 2024, 2023 (Cloud Native; Open Source AI and Applied Science)
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Staff
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 - 2021
- CVPR 2024, NeurIPS 2019
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Guest Speaker
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Recruiting Team - Technical Interviewer
- Grace Hopper Celebration 2021, 2020