Steve Bowden is a Brisbane based Alexa Skill builder who has won finalist prizes in two worldwide Alexa hackathons and continues to test various use cases on the platform. He is a qualified project manager who has picked up cloud development over the recent years. He enjoys completing projects on the Alexa platform as they enable him to implement practical cloud architectures and interact with an active user base to test ideas and improve the user experience. As at the end of 2019, Steve has published 19 skills.
- Mighty Trivia: Alexa pretends to be something and you have to guess what it is based on her hints. There is a global leaderboard at https://mightytrivia.com . This skill won a finalist prize in the 2018 Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge - Kids Skills. It has been updated with a professional voiceover and In-Skill Purchasing (ISP) for access to premium modes.
- Start Nagging Me: Trouble motivating yourself? Say Alexa, start nagging me and she will nag you every minute in a tailored and fun way! This skill won a finalist prize in the Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge - Life Hacks.
- Super Over: Play a cricket Super Over against Alexa and see who can rise to the top of the leaderboard at https://voicecricket.com . This skill was built as part of the Australia and New Zealand Alexa Master Builders Developer Program in 2019.
The full list of Steve's published Skills can be found at https://bowdencloud.com/alexa
Contributions
- Brisbane AWS Meetup Presentation about the reasons for building Alexa Skills - Inspiring developers to get experience building on the Alexa platform.
- A technical discussion on a real-time gaming architecture for Alexa - Helping developers create online multiplayer voice games
- A technical presentation of a voice-based identity platform - Getting developers to think about layered access 'use-cases' on shared voice devices.
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