# Cayla Murdoch

> Artist that learned how to code

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/caylamurdoch

## Work Experience
### Game Dev and Founding Team Member @ Latitude
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Provo, Utah, United States
Co-created AI Dungeon, one of the earliest viral generative AI products (GPT-2/3 powered), reaching millions of users.

Shaped product strategy, design, and retention, turning cutting-edge models into an accessible, playful user experience.

Led initiatives in branding and community growth, helping define AI Dungeon as a category-defining creative AI experience.

Championed inclusive hiring practices and a psychologically safe culture, scaling an early AI startup team.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, Washington
Built Android features for Outlook Mobile, contributing to a product with 100M+ users.

Strengthened mobile dev and large-scale system practices.

### Graphic Designer @ Perception Control and Cognition Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Provo, Utah Area
Worked as a Graphic Designer in the Perception Control and Cognition Lab in the Computer Science Department at Brigham Young University.  I designed a new logo, made business cards, created videos, took photos, and made posters for teams to take to various academic conferences around the world.

Holodeck Promo Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_huewiGqfrs&frags=pl%2Cwn

### Chief Marketing Officer @ Perception Control and Cognition Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Provo, Utah
Collaborated with Amazon engineers as 1 of 8 global teams competing in the Alexa Prize conversational AI challenge.

Designed and executed branding, storytelling, and outreach to communicate the team’s AI research.

Gave users and testers visibility into early advances in conversational AI, bridging technical work and public adoption.

“EVE is a team of researchers from the BYU Perception, Control, and Cognition Laboratory that has been accepted to the Amazon Alexa Prize Challenge 2018.  EVE is 1 of 8 teams globally competing to advance conversational AI and build a fully functioning socialbot that you can hold a real conversation with.”

Because of my diverse knowledge of computer science, business, and graphic design, I was able to accurately and creatively capture the team’s journey throughout their pursuit of the 2018 Alexa Prize and share this experience with our community and audiences.  I created content (video, images, tweets, posts and blogs) for all of our team social media accounts; developed new social media campaigns from the ground up; monitored social channels for trending news, ideas and memes, then capitalized on those trends through our social media accounts; promoted interest in the team, upcoming opportunities to support, Beta testing, and other related opportunities; and I created awareness and engagement across campus.

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNBl4dIJ3A8&frags=pl%2Cwn

Articles:

KSL - https://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=46283718&nid=1012&title=byu-team-could-receive-500k-in-amazons-alexa-chatbot-challenge
U92 SLC - https://u92slc.com/news/byu-team-competes-in-amazons-alexa-chatbot-challenge/
Fox 13 News - http://fox13now.com/2018/04/26/team-at-byu-working-to-develop-artificial-intelligence-for-amazons-alexa/
Daily Herald - https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/college/byu/byu-team-gets-to-make-alexa-conversational/article_35bdb867-44f5-53ad-b67c-e216dc3b0ec4.html
BYU News - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bSVpv3aoww

### Explorer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, Washington
Developed features to help Outlook users celebrate events with visual storytelling.

Won Best Hack at a Microsoft hackathon for building a “Reflections” calendar feature that analyzed user events.

### Teaching Assistant @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Provo, Utah Area
Worked as a Teaching Assistant and a member of the Development Team for CS 142: Intro to Computer Programming in the Computer Science Department at Brigham Young University.  I mentored students one on one, teaching them C++ and helping them with homework and labs.

### Professional Photographer @ CaylaRae Photography
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018
caylarae.wix.com/caylaraephotography

I'm located in Provo, UT and take local Utah Valley family photos, senior pictures, engagements, and any other type of picture you need.  While I typically work locally, I've also supplied photos for traveling companies such as Loop Abroad in Chiang Mai, Thailand.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/caylamurdoch

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Last updated: 2026-03-25