Danny Sheridan
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarDanny Sheridan is Co-founder and CEO of Fern in New York, building tooling that instantly generates SDKs and docs for APIs while combining hands-on development with strategic product leadership. He contributes to the open-source fern-api as a full-stack developer, shaping both documentation and core generator logic that turns OpenAPI input into client SDKs. Before Fern he was a Technical Product Manager at AWS, where he shipped global release-note systems and even owned the protoflight mission schedule for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, demonstrating comfort with complex, cross-functional programs. He also founded a popular newsletter with 95,000 readers and multiple ventures from e-commerce to a university blockchain organization, reflecting strong community-building and entrepreneurial instincts. A YC W23 founder with a Ross School of Business background, he pairs analytical rigor and project management discipline with developer empathy.
4 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
api-doc10
openapi310
document-generation10
openapi-310
api-documentation10
documentation-generator10
code-generation10
api10
sdk10
generators10
openapi10
typescript39
typescript29
typescript9
typescript-types9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
fern-api/fern
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Input OpenAPI. Output SDKs and Docs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 187 reviews, 104 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Danny contributed to both the documentation and the core functionality of the API framework. They set up and revised the documentation outline, including updating HTML files and adding content. They also worked on core aspects of the API, such as defining types, errors, and services, as well as configuring generators, demonstrating a full understanding of the project's architecture.
apipythonproduction-readyjavascriptsdks
fern-api/docs
Jul 2023 - Nov 2023
Documentation for Fern
Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 45 PRs in 4 months
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