Peng, Andy

PNW resident. Engineer, researcher, architect, and advisor. Specializing in large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing.
UTL & Intrapreneur. Building basic services. Has managed, built, and scaled several products 0-to-1 & 10x across various verticals: Amazon Bedrock (SOTA LLM), S3 , App Runner (Serverless Compute, Founding engineer & TLM), Fargate, Alexa AI (Healthcare + Conversational 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. 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.
Reviewer for top tier conferences (ICML and ICLR etc.), and program committee member for Non-Profit Organizations in the open-source space, such as the Linux Foundation and CNCF. Guest lecturer and mentor at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

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.

Collecting magnets and mugs.

Be concise, be curious, be real, and building primitives.

[Links]

• 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