Software Development Intern, Amazon - Summer 2019
Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
I interned as a Software Development Engineer with one of the biggest tech firms in the world - Amazon
As part of the Alexa Shopping ASR Team, I got excellent industrial exposure that augmented my technical, interpersonal and management skills.
A few highlights of my internship :
- Performed analysis customer utterances on to extract phonetically similar words that may be misinterpreted by Alexa. Used a combination of Levenshtien distance and phonetic algorithms (Soundex, Metaphone-3) to pinpoint the words. The motivation of this work was to allow non-tech savvy individuals (Program Managers, Data Associates, etc) to self-analyze the utterances without offloading work to Engineers thereby saving time and resources. Additionally, analyzed utterances were to be provided to the voice modeling team for improvements.
- Designed and implemented an end-to-end mechanism that automates the existing manual and technical approach for adding items to Alexa’s database per locale. Infrastructure consisted of Flask, AWS S3 and REST API. Saved valuable time of data associates and development.
- Gained valuable knowledge on Agile methodologies, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment, Git Version Control
- Improved software engineering skills by routinely collaborating with stakeholders/customers to understanding feature requirements, employing industry standard coding practices and code reviewing
- Understanding importance of work life balance as well as meeting milestone deadlines/commitments
