industry

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Amazon

I worked at Amazon for 2.5 years from Jan 2020 to Jul 2022. Though originally hired as a linguist to work on Alexa's Spanish deterministic model, I very quickly found opportunities to automate processes and improve data-centric workflows with Python. From there, I took on more of a backend engineering role, building tools and contributing to systems used by linguists, language engineers, and research scientists. About 1.5 years in, I was added as an official away member of one of Alexa's Systems Development teams. One of my largest acheivements was a feature contributed to a proprietary NLU language compiler written in JAVA and used by thousands of linguists, language engineers, and research scientists. This constituted the first ever contribution from a non-English Alexa org-member to Alexa's largest internal NLU service.