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. 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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• 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