Jerry Peng is a software developer at Amazon with six years of experience building full‑stack services, RESTful APIs, and data-driven applications, grounded in a dual BA in Computer Science and Economics from Cornell. He has shipped APIs to streamline datalake onboarding and schema evolution at Amazon and contributed ML-focused features to the high-profile aws/sagemaker-python-sdk, enhancing model registration and repackaging workflows. Comfortable across Java, C#, .NET, and Python, he blends backend engineering with practical machine learning work—having improved a client’s income-detection model and processed millions of financial transactions during an earlier data science role. Jerry’s background spans finance, research, and teaching, reflecting a habit of turning complex data and domain constraints into reliable, testable systems. Based in Ithaca, he brings both product-minded pragmatism and a curiosity for applying CS to financial challenges.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science & Economics, Graduated alum, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science & Economics, Graduated alum at Cornell University
A library for training and deploying machine learning models on Amazon SageMaker
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:171 reviews, 25 commits, 43 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jerry contributed to the `aws/sagemaker-python-sdk` repository by implementing and modifying functionalities related to SageMaker workflows. Their work focused on enhancing the `RegisterModel` step, including custom dependency support, and on integrating model repackaging. These modifications included adjustments to the test suite and the introduction of new features for model registration and transformation.
Amazon SageMaker Model Building Pipelines is a tool for building machine learning pipelines that take advantage of direct SageMaker integration. Because of this integration, you can create a pipeline and set up SageMaker Projects for orchestration using a tool that handles much of the step creation and management for you. This repository hosts the pipeline definition JSON schema
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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