Avinash Kaza

Most devices with Alexa allow users to activate the device using a wake word (such as Alexa or Echo). As part of the wake word engine services team, I was responsible for cloud-side services and portals that help provide the best possible customer experience in waking up 150+ Amazon and 3rd party devices using the wake words. Most of my work is around fingerprinting technology.

USPTO is the federal government agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. With over 10,000 employees and many contractors. USPTO is adopting an Agile and Dev-Ops culture and is rebuilding its legacy systems to become next-generation software solutions. I lead five Agile teams building a next-generation application called PTAB.

There is a tough problem with limited space and heavy dataset in visualizations, and I wanted a solution where we could show as many labels as possible without losing aesthetics or introducing the difficulty of the user picking an icon with a number and then finding a label for it.

I came up with custom force-based algorithms in three of the visualizations, which solved the issue, and the animation of moving bubbles and labels made customers happy.