Summary
Andrew Peng is a Specialist Senior Solutions Architect at AWS with 15 years of experience designing and operationalizing high-performance storage and networking systems, and serves as the worldwide subject-matter expert for FSx for Windows File Server. Prior to AWS he spent over a decade at NASA Mission Control Houston as an ISS flight controller and instructor, where he engineered onboard computing, networking, and disaster-recovery procedures for mission-critical systems. He combines deep operational discipline from human spaceflight with hands-on storage engineering, contributing to OpenZFS research and advocating scalable storage architectures for cloud workloads. Known for stepping in when complex storage questions have no obvious answer, he teaches and mentors both customers and internal architects on best practices. Based in Houston, he pairs an aerospace engineering background with a home lab full of enterprise-grade hardware, reflecting a practical, systems-first approach to solving infrastructure problems.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Aerospace Engineering, BS, Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
English