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 and led both 0-to-1 innovation and 10x product scaling across diverse verticals: Amazon Bedrock (SOTA LLM: Claude+OpenAI etc.), 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.
Organizing committee member for top tier conferences (NeurIPS 25 Co-Chair). Program committee member for ICML, KDD, NeurIPS etc., as well as for Non-Profit Organizations like the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Guest lecturer and mentor at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Research Areas (current): AI + ML, LLM Inference and Optimization, 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
• ICML Program Committee 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