Peng, Andy

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 (LLM Inference Anthropic AI models), S3 (Largest Distributed Storage System on Earth), App Runner (Managed Container Apps Service, Founding engineer & TLM), Fargate (Serverless Compute), Alexa (Founding engineer of Healthcare domain), Commerce Platform (Manage $100B ARR Bill Run) 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 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.

Pickleball fan.

[Links]

• 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