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. In charge of multiple company wide privileged and confidential programs. Diverse experience encompassing both people management and technical leadership, including cross-company and multidisciplinary organizations collaborations. Intrapreneur. Has managed, built, and scaled several tier-1 products, new initiatives 0-1, businesses, and teams spanning various technical domains. Key contributions include Amazon Bedrock (Anthropic LLM model inference), S3 (Largest Distributed Storage System on Earth), App Runner (Managed Container Apps Service, Founding engineer & TLM), Fargate (Serverless Compute), Alexa AI (Founding engineer of Healthcare domain), Commerce Platform (Manage $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, 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 Areas (current): AI + ML, LLM Inference, Containers, Compute & Virtualization, Open Source.
Moderators: Padmaja Vrudhula, VP Industry Vertical Workload Solutions, Snowflake; Speakers: Andy Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS, Morgan Zion, CEO, Alpha Girl Club, Caroline Williams, Founder, The Do Good Only Company