David Henry
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Henry is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with nine years of experience building device-side systems and leading cross-functional teams at scale. At Amazon he was a key designer and technical lead for the AVS Device SDK and the MAX Toolkit—both launched open source—and architected a convergence layer that unified two complete Alexa stacks. He combines deep C++/systems expertise with product-facing collaboration across PM, QA, TPM, legal and leadership, and has repeatedly turned complex integration problems into production platforms adopted by partners like Google and JBL. Earlier work includes founding a niche classical-music web service and building low-latency trading systems at Bloomberg, reflecting a mix of entrepreneurial and enterprise engineering. Notably, his MAX work enabled the first consumer devices to host multiple voice agents simultaneously, demonstrating a knack for pragmatic, interoperable design.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (11)
commercial10
makers10
maintenance-mode10
alexa-voice-service10
device-management10
connected10
sdk10
integrate10
avs10
maintenance9
java8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
alexa/avs-device-sdk
May 2019 - May 2019
An SDK for commercial device makers to integrate Alexa directly into connected products.
Contributions:2 releases, 3 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
connected-productsmakersdevice-managementsdkconnected
alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
2018-01-25 - The AVS Java Sample App is maintenance mode. Please use the AVS Device SDK.
Contributions:60 comments, 11 issues in 2 years
avsmaintenance-modesdkdevice-sdkapp-is
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