Peng, Andy
Builder, Researcher, Technologist, Advisor.
PNW resident (📍 Seattle, WA). Engineer, researcher, architect, and advisor. Specializing in machine learning, large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing.
Beyond the marketing talks and blog posts arranged by my company, I also write personal blogs on topics I find interesting at pengandy.com/blog.
Be concise, be curious, be real, and building primitives.
Also a fan of:
Orca
Pickleball
Kraken
Seahawks
Kosaku Shima
Lorde
Tarantino
Melville
Magnets & mugs
Builder & Intrapreneur
Product · 0-to-1 · Amazon
- Decade-long veteran. Led 0-to-1 innovation and 10x scaling across multiple Amazon product lines — ML research engineering (Generative AI: SageMaker AI, Bedrock; Conversational AI: Alexa AI) and software engineering (App Runner, Fargate, S3).
Researcher
NeurIPS · ICML · KDD · ICLR
- NeurIPS 2025 Co-Chair.
- Multi-year Program Committee / reviewer for ICML, KDD, and ICLR (main tracks and workshops).
machine learning
agentic ai
model evaluation & benchmark
model customization
inference optimization
Open Source Contributor
Linux Foundation · CNCF
- CNCF Ambassador & Community Lead of Cloud Native Seattle.
- Program Committee across Open Source Summit, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, and PyTorch Conference (multiple years, multiple regions).
Content Creator
Book · Blog · Photography
- Co-author, DeepSeek in Practice (Packt, 2025).
- Personal blog at pengandy.com/blog, plus short-form photography & video on Rednote and Instagram.
University Lecturer
UW Foster School of Business
- Guest lecturer for Generative AI / Cloud Computing courses (MSIS 547, MSIS 549) at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business.
- Mentor for the AWS AI/ML Scholarship Program and UW MSIS students.
VC Advisor
Fusion Fund · AI2 Incubator
- Fusion Fund Fellow (2026).
- AI2 Incubator Resident Expert, advising early-stage AI startups.
Say hi
Open to research collaboration, speaking, advising, and coffee in Seattle.
pengandy [dot] build [at] gmail [dot] com
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