Arshia is an experienced full stack engineer who has been at Amazon for the past 6 years. She began her career here by working as the sole developer on the music web player client application. To explore some of the scaling and infrastructure challenges, she moved to the backend service teams responsible for music library, account and family management. Last year she moved to Seattle and switched to the teams supporting music for the Alexa ecosystem, which powers the Echo voice experience. Prior to joining Amazon, she worked on a range of technologies and applications for the state of Indiana through the company NIC after initially starting her career at Interactions, a VOIP based startup. She completed her undergrad with a focus on Psychology and Computer Science at Ball State University after attending the Illinois Math & Science Academy.