Eric Shepherd
Software Engineer at AWS
Maryville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Shepherd is a software engineer with five years of experience and a Senior Developer Writer at Amazon focused on improving AWS SDK guides for Python and Swift. He contributes to flagship repos like aws-doc-sdk-examples and boto3, adding working Swift S3 examples with multipart upload and SQS samples while also refining Boto3 quickstarts, migration guides, and configuration docs. Eric blends hands-on full-stack development with technical writing to make examples production-ready, ensuring sample code stays aligned with the latest SDKs. Based in Maryville, Tennessee, he’s known for pragmatic, test-driven fixes that prioritize code that actually runs in documentation, not just illustrative snippets.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
swift10
documentations10
boto310
amazon-s310
aws10
amazon-sqs10
documentation10
aws-sdk10
python9
testing9
manage9
cloudmanager9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Welcome to the AWS Code Examples Repository. This repo contains code examples used in the AWS documentation, AWS SDK Developer Guides, and more. For more information, see the Readme.md file below.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 109 commits, 75 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the development of an Amazon S3 example by adding, testing and updating the Swift code. They improved the existing code base to align with the most recent SDK and also incorporated multi-part upload capabilities. Their focus was on ensuring the code runs correctly. The user also added examples for Amazon SQS.
dotnetcpppythonjavascriptphp
boto/boto3
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
AWS SDK for Python
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:22 reviews, 17 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily focused on updating and improving the Boto3 documentation. The commits involve modifications to quickstart guides, migration guides, and configuration documentation. The changes reflect updates to the documentation, including addressing deprecation notices, adding configuration information related to proxies and CRT support, and incorporating updates to S3 bucket names, credential configuration, and the footer.
pythonaws-sdksdkcloudcloud-management
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