Amy Burns
Product Manager at Google DeepMind
Boston, Massachusetts, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAmy Burns is a product leader and former technical writer with 12 years of experience building developer-facing content and cross-platform mobile experiences, now shaping product at Google DeepMind. She blends deep Xamarin expertise (iOS, Android, Forms) and hands-on engineering—evidenced by contributions to high-profile repos like xamarin-forms-samples and github/docs—with product and developer-experience roles at Vercel, GitHub, and Microsoft. Her background in shipping SDK docs, sample apps, and installer/first-run flows for Visual Studio for Mac gives her a rare mix of technical depth and customer-facing storytelling. Amy is skilled at turning developer feedback into actionable roadmaps and has repeatedly bridged content, UX, and engineering to drive adoption. Based in Boston with a BSc in Computing & Information Technology from Queen’s University Belfast, she’s equally comfortable editing GraphQL schemas as updating mobile build configurations. A Xamarin certification and history of porting and modernizing samples reveal a practical focus on compatibility and developer ergonomics that often goes unseen.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing & Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing & Information Technology at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (27)
ios10
mobile-development10
multiplatform10
codespaces10
xamarin10
cross-platform10
xamarin-ios10
ui-design10
wpgraphql10
uid10
xamarin-forms10
front-end-development10
android10
wordpress-graphql10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xamarin/docs-archive
Jun 2015 - Apr 2018
Xamarin docs archive
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:57 commits, 3 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Amy's commits primarily involve adding and modifying code related to iOS development, focusing on implementing UI components and integrating various functionalities. The user's work includes creating new recipes for iOS samples, updating existing code to use the unified API, and fixing issues related to existing implementations. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the user interface, and making the samples compatible with the latest API standards.
xamarin-macarchivexamarin-iosxamarinxamarin-forms
xamarin/ios-samples
Oct 2013 - Sep 2017
Xamarin.iOS sample apps
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:141 commits, 3 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Amy primarily focused on updating Xamarin.iOS sample applications, often to support iOS 7 and to include/update app icons and screenshots. Their contributions involved modifying project files, adding or modifying UI elements, and updating code to ensure compatibility with the specified iOS version. The changes include updating existing sample apps, refactoring existing code and adding UI elements.
ios-samplesample-appstvosxamarin-ioswatchkit
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