PNW local. Seasoned software product builder / technology leader (TL) based in Seattle (WA). Technical advisor. Public speaker and book author . Specialized in large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing (GenAI/AI/ML, foundational data services, containers, and serverless computing etc., open-source). Diverse experience encompassing both people management and technical leadership, including cross-company and multidisciplinary organizations collaborations. Community Lead of Cloud Native Seattle, CNCF Ambassador @LinuxFoundation; Packt tech advisory board. Guest lecturer and industry mentor @UW .
Manage, build, and scale several tier-1 products , new initiatives, businesses and teams spanning various technical domains:
Amazon Bedrock : The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models.
GenAI MaaS
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3 ): Object storage built to retrieve any amount of data from anywhere.
Data (TL one of the top 2 profitable divisions)
AWS App Runner : Managed Container Apps Service.
Compute Containers PaaS (TL a division of 70, Founding engineer & TLM)
AWS Fargate : Serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine. Compute Containers
Amazon Alexa AI/ML NLU (Founding engineer of Healthcare domain)
And Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Elastic Beanstalk etc.
Open-source engagements: Kubernetes, Envoy, OpenTelemtry, containerd; Firecracker; Kafka; RocksDB..
Pickleball fan.
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Selected Publications
Transforming AI: Modern Business Redefine
University of Washington
Guest Lecturer: Andy Peng, Amazon
New Era of Generative AI and Building in the Cloud
University of Washington
Guest Lecturer: Andy Peng, Amazon
Seattle Women in Tech Regatta 2023 | Myth-Busting Tech Trends
Moderators: Padmaja Vrudhula, VP Industry Vertical Workload Solutions, Snowflake ; Speakers: Andy Peng , Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS , Morgan Zion, CEO, Alpha Girl Club , Caroline Williams, Founder, The Do Good Only Company
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 | The open-source community at AWS: containerd and Envoy
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AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Presenters: Phil Estes, Principal Engineer, AWS and Andy Peng , Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
CUC Meetup | Technical Leadership in Team Management
Moderator: Zheng Luo, Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure; Speaker: Andy Peng , Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 | Building Multi-Tenant Routing And Scaling With Envoy
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Presenter: Andy Peng , Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
DockerCon x Container Day | How Developers can get to production web applications at scale easily
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Presenters: Clarinda Mascarenhas, Sr. Container Specialist, AWS and Andy Peng , Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
Containers from the Couch | AWS App Runner X-Ray Integration
Moderator: Adam Keller, Senior Technologist, AWS; Speaker: Andy Peng , Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
Blog | Horizontal Auto Scaling in Serverless Containers
AWS Blog | Enabling AWS X-Ray tracing for AWS App Runner service using AWS Copilot CLI
AWS Blog | Observability for AWS App Runner VPC networking
AWS Blog | Tracing an AWS App Runner service using AWS X-Ray with OpenTelemetry
Services
Wo(men) In Tech Regatta
Guest Speaker (2023)
Open Source Summit
Program Committee : Open AI + Data Forum and CloudOpen (NA24 ), CloudOpen (EU23 )
Open Source GenAI & ML Summit
Program Committee : EU2024
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
Program Committee : Emerging & Advanced (EU24), SDLC (NA23), Runtime Performance + Constrained Environments (EU23); Speaker : Service Mesh (NA22); Staff (NA21, NA20, NA19)
Southern California Linux Expo
Program Committee : Cloud Native Open Source AI and Applied Science (SCaLE21x )
DockerCon
Speaker (2022)
Grace Hopper Celebration
Technical Recruiting (2021, 2020)
NeurIPS (2019 )
IndexConf (2023)
WASMCON (Rust Global ) (2023)
News
June, 2024 - KuberTENes Birthday Bash SAVE THE DATE!
May, 2024 - Keynote Fifteen years of formal methods at AWS Marc Brooker
May, 2024 - Adam Selipsky on why AWS's cloud growth was a standout in earning reports
May, 2024 - AWS sees $100 billion annual run rate as generative AI already provides "a multi-billion dollar" contribution
April, 2024 - Race For AI Isn't Zero-sum, Says Amazon Cloud Boss
April, 2024 - GeekWire Podcast: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the rapid progress of AI, and its impact on society
April, 2024 - CNBC sat down with Matt Wood, VP of Artificial Intelligence at Amazon, to discuss Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic
April, 2024 - Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon’s Board of Directors
April, 2024 - CEO Andy Jassy’s 2023 Letter to Shareholders
April, 2024 - AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024: Accelerate innovation with generative AI on AWS
April, 2024 - Amazon is teaming up with NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and the University of Tsukuba in Japan to push the boundaries of AI innovation , UW joins $110M cross-Pacific effort to advance artificial intelligence
April, 2024 - AWS and Mistral AI commit to democratizing generative AI with a strengthened collaboration
March, 2024 - Amazon and Anthropic deepen their shared commitment to advancing generative AI
March, 2024 - Amazon is one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in North America for 2024, specifically highlighting Amazon Bedrock from Amazon Web Services (AWS)
March, 2024 - GTC 2024: Transforming AI Panel. Jensen Huang, Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin.
March, 2024 - AWS and NVIDIA extend their collaboration to advance generative AI
Pi Day , 2024 - AWS Pi Day 2024: Use your data to power generative AI
March, 2024 - Unlocking Innovation: AWS and Anthropic push the boundaries of generative AI together Amazon News , AWS Machine Learning blog, Anthropic news blog, Dr. Matt Wood's blog post , AWS News blog
March, 2024 - Mistral AI models now available on Amazon Bedrock
February, 2024 - 4 tech predictions for 2024 and beyond, according to Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels
January, 2024 - Meet The Leader, This simple question helped Amazon teams get future ready: AWS AI and data chief
January, 2024 - CEO Andy Jassy talks AI strategy in Davos
December, 2023 - Bloomberg | How Amazon Is Tackling Generative AI
December, 2023 - At NeurIPS, what's old is new again
December, 2023 - AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications'
November, 2023 - Welcome to a New Era of Building in the Cloud with Generative AI on AWS
November, 2023 - AWS and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Collaboration to Offer New Supercomputing Infrastructure, Software and Services for Generative AI Press Release
November, 2023 - AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
November, 2023 - Shift AI Podcast: Laying the bedrock for generative AI at Amazon with AWS VP Vasi Philomin
November, 2023 - RocksDB turning 10!
October, 2023 - The Future of Generative AI: Exploring the Impact of Amazon Bedrock with Atul Deo
September, 2023 - New developer tools to build LLM-powered experiences with Alexa
September, 2023 - AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Bedrock and powerful new offerings to accelerate generative AI innovation
June, 2023 - Bloomberg | AWS VP on Importance of Data Strategy to Pivot to AI
June, 2023 - Happy 5th Birthday Amazon EKS!
May, 2023 - Learn How to Modernize Your Applications at AWS Serverless Innovation Day
May, 2023 - USENIX ATC '23 | On-demand Container Loading in AWS Lambda Awarded Best Paper!
April, 2023 - AWS at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
April, 2023 - AWS announces Amazon Bedrock and multiple generative AI services and capabilities
Pi Day , 2023 - Celebrate Amazon S3’s 17th birthday at AWS Pi Day 2023
March, 2023 - USENIX FAST '23 | Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
November, 2022 - Happy 5th birthday AWS Fargate!!
October, 2022 - AWS at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
October, 2022 - ECS and App Runner Happy Hour and Networking Event
September, 2022 - Developer Summit: App Runner
May, 2022 - AWS open source news and updates, #113
May, 2022 - AWS Observability Recipes for App Runner now "Fresh out".👨🍳
April, 2022 - AWS Container Day with Docker open for registration.
April, 2022 - Save the date: AWS Containers events in May
April, 2022 - AWS Week in Review – April 18, 2022
June, 2021 - InfoQ | Q&A with AWS VP of Compute Services Deepak Singh about AWS App Runner
November, 2019 - New ways to manage your medications at home using Alexa
November, 2019 - Alexa at five: Looking back, looking forward
Pi Day , 2016 - CELEBRATING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMAZON WEB SERVICES , 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services
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Research Topics (current) :
generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)
Model-as-a-Service (MaaS)
Model serving
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