PNWer. Seasoned software builder / technology leader based in Seattle (WA). Public speaker and author. Specialized in large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing. Helped build and run multiple cross-domain technical fields products:

• foundational data services (FDS): Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) (Apex & Index, designed to provide 99.999999999% 11 9's of data durability);
• virtualization, serverless compute: Lambda / App Runner (Founding engineer & TLM) & ECS / Fargate (Serverless Containers). Launched stealth mode product from 0 to 1 [Read more in ];
• AI: Alexa Healthcare (Founding engineer & TL), Launched AI-Powered products "New ways to manage your medications at home using Alexa" [Read more in ] and HIPAA-Eligible Skill Program etc.;
• And some open-source projects engagement: #envoy, #containerd, #Firecracker, #Kafka, #OTel, #knative etc.

Program Committee @linuxfoundation; Member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) #CloudNativeAmbassador program; Community Lead of Cloud Native Seattle, creator and maintainer of non-profit community CloudNative-Serverless-Meetup . Packt tech advisory board. Received two books authoring invites.
Generative AI and Rust fan.

[Links]

• AWS Blog author page
• The Linux Foundation Program Committee page
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador page
• Seattle Women in Tech Regatta speaker page

[Read more Publications | Projects | Professional Experience]

Publications

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 📍 AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS | The open-source community at AWS: containerd and Envoy More reads (1K+ attendees)
  Presenters: Phil Estes, Principal Engineer, AWS and Yiming Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
• CUC Meetup | Technical Leadership in Team Management (220+ attendees)
  Moderator: Zheng Luo, Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure; Speaker: Yiming Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 📍 DETROIT, MICHIGAN | Building Multi-Tenant Routing And Scaling With Envoy (600+ attendees)
  Presenter: Yiming Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
• DockerCon x Container Day | How Developers can get to production web applications at scale easily | (16K+ attendees)
  Presenters: Clarinda Mascarenhas, Sr. Container Specialist, AWS and Yiming Peng, Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS
• Containers from the Couch | AWS App Runner X-Ray Integration (400+ attendees)
  Moderator: Adam Keller, Senior Technologist, AWS; Speaker: Yiming 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 (2023 Guest Speaker)
• #OSSUMMIT | The Linux Foundation (2023 EU Program Committee)
• #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 NA Speaker, 2023 EU, NA Program Committee)
• #envoycon (2021, 2022)
• #DockerCon x #AWSContainerDay (2022 Speaker)
• #WASMCON (Rust Global) (2023)
• SCaLE
• GHC (2020, 2021 Technical Recruiting)
• NeurIPS (2019)

News

• September, 2023 - AWS’s Serverless Revolution: Delegating Infrastructure for Business Success – Infrastructure Matters Insider Edition
• September, 2023 - New developer tools to build LLM-powered experiences with Alexa
• June, 2023 - Bloomberg | AWS VP on Importance of Data Strategy to Pivot to AI
• 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 - Hello World: AI Coding Companions
• April, 2023 - AWS announces Amazon Bedrock and multiple generative AI services and capabilities
• March, 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

Certificates (recent)

• Generative AI with Large Language Models ✅, issued by DeepLearning.AI
• AWS Knowledge: Serverless ✅, issued by AWS

Contact

• Social: mostly (@social.seattle.wa.us) (@cloud-native.social) , but also
• Coffee chat with me: signup.
• Newsletter: Medium: .