Tony Hardie

About Tony Hardie

SummaryI am currently building and running talented teams that are building out our Smart Home Developer Experience programsPreviously I ran teams that built Alexa communication experiences such as Drop In and Calling. I love hearing from customers in how these features help make their daily lives a little easier! I have significant experience in people management, software architecture, design and implementation.I build scalable highly functioning teams to deliver great products and experiences for our customers in consumer spaces. Before Alexa I built experiences on Amazon Fire Phone and through it\'s ultimate failure I learned more than through past success. I hold multiple patents on communications for Alexa as well as items on Forward error correction for packetized data networks. Specialties: building teams, mechanisms, solving complex problems into simple solutions, fast learner and versatile to adapt to any situation, from driving a team of specialized engineers to diving right into code when needed.

Experience

1. Senior Manager - Smart Home Developer Experience

   Amazon

   Jan 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   I own the Product and Engineering for Smart Home\'s Developer\'s Experience, I drive multiple streams including Alexa Connect Kit Cloud Services, Smart Home Primitives, Developer Console Partner tools and Insights.

Education

• University of Auckland

  Bachelor of Science

  1997 — 1999

Skills

• Project Management
• Sip
• System Building
• Distributed Systems
• C#
• .net
• Project Coordination
• Problem Solving
• Cas
• Unified Communications
• Tcp/Ip
• Embedded Linux
• Dsp
• Application Architecture
• Tdm
• Rtp
• Software Development
• Python
• Telecommunications
• Embedded Systems
• Voip
• Lync
• Troubleshooting
• Visual Studio
• Ethernet
• Ip
• Perforce
• System Architecture
• Wireless
• Project Engineering
• Team Management
• C++
• Windows
• C
• Bonsai
• Software Design
• Ss7
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• Uc