Peng, Andy

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.

Fan of Orca, Pickleball, Seattle Kraken, Seahawk, Kosaku Shima, Lorde, Quentin Tarantino, Herman Melville.

Be concise, be curious, be real, keep building.

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• University of Washington Foster School of Business Mentor page
• AWS Blog author page
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador page
• Open Source Summit Program Committee page
• Open Source Summit GenAI & ML Summit Program Committee page
• Seattle Women in Tech Regatta speaker page