Tich Kent

Software Development Manager @Amazon

Aug 20 to Present: Video Advertising\\\\nManaging a medium sized tech team responsible for video ad (creative) tooling and production. The team provides both a low-level video rendering and transcoding API, plus advertiser-focused tooling allowing the production of high-quality video ads using straightforward forms, requiring no prior video production experience. Additionally, leader of the EU tech bar raiser core with significant responsibilities for training new tech bar raisers and ensuring Amazon continues to recruit the best tech talent across Europe.\\\\n\\\\nAug 17 to July 20: Personalization\\\\nManaging a medium sized tech team responsible for improving recommendations across Amazon, utilizing modern deep learning techniques to revolutionize the production of recommendations that are both personalized and page context aware. Such recommendations are compelling to customers and generate significant revenue. Systems must meet tight performance criteria, scale to handle massive data, and support high availability. Also built a new team to focus on the specific problem of recommending products for repeat purchase, making use of both deep learning and more traditional algorithmic approaches.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n