Kay Lerch
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKay Lerch is a founder and product-focused engineering leader with 10 years of professional experience and a decade-plus history building voice and ambient media experiences. After eight years at Amazon shaping Alexa and AWS developer-facing programs across Europe and the US, he has been running Ambient Visions since 2017—single-handedly owning engineering, UX, content and partnerships to deliver ambient video experiences for Alexa and Fire TV. He now leads AMVI, reimagining the TV as an intentional ambient experience, and runs SkillDevs.io to give Alexa developers structured visibility into platform issues. Kay combines deep systems and integration expertise from earlier enterprise roles with hands-on consumer product instincts, and is comfortable moving between low-level technical architecture and creative multimedia execution. Based in Houston, he brings an unusual blend of voice-platform authority and solo-founder craft to building ambient home experiences.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon OhmBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Information Systems at The Berlin School of Economics and LawAbitur (university entrance diploma), Abitur (university entrance diploma) at Humboldt-Gymnasium Potsdam
English, German
Stackoverflow
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7kreached
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Github Skills (38)
apache-nifi10
amazon-echo10
apache10
alexa-skills-kit10
java10
pojo9
displays9
controlling9
sdk9
amazon9
voice9
gpio9
rgb8
invocation-api8
logic8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KayLerch/alexa-meets-polly
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
KayLerch/alexa-xmas-tree
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 1 year
christmas-treealexa-custom-skillledchristmasalexa
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