Peng, Andy
Builder, Technologist, Advisor.
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. Diverse experience encompassing both people management and technical leadership, including cross-company and multidisciplinary organizations collaborations.
Has managed, built, and scaled several tier-1 products, new initiatives 0-1, businesses, and teams across various technical domains. Key contributions include Amazon Bedrock
(LLM Inference Anthropic AI models), S3 (one of the top 2 profitable divisions), App Runner
(Managed Container Apps Service, led a division of 70 as Founding engineer & TLM), Fargate (Serverless Compute), Alexa (Founding engineer of Healthcare domain), Commerce Platform 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 tech 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 Topics (current): AI + ML, LLM Inference, Containers, Compute & Virtualization, Open Source.
Pickleball fan.
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Selected Publications
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LLM
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Mentor
- UWash. MBA and Master of Science in Information Systems 2024 academic year
- AWS AI/ML Mentor Scholarship Program 2024
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Program Committee
- Open Source Summit Europe 2024, China 2024, North America 2024, Europe 2023
- Open Source GenAI & ML Summit China 2024, Europe 2024
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024, North America 2024, Europe 2024, China 2024, North America 2023, Europe 2023
- PyTorch Con 2024
- Southern California Linux Expo 2024, 2023
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Staff
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 - 2021
- CVPR 2024, NeurIPS 2019 and IndexConf 2023
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Guest Speaker
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Recruiting Team - Technical Interviewer
- Grace Hopper Celebration 2021, 2020