Amy Guy
Greater Edinburgh Area United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAmy Guy is a seasoned software engineer based in the Greater Edinburgh Area with 12 years of experience building web-facing systems across front-end, back-end and specification work. She contributes to prominent open-source projects — including ActivityPub and Aleph — improving APIs, search functionality, and client/server documentation for decentralised web standards. Her work spans from UI polish and usability improvements in dokieli to backend authentication, metadata and permission model refinements, showing comfort across the full stack. As a careful technical writer she clarifies and restructures standards (DID registries, ActivityPub) so implementations are easier to reason about. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic fixes that balance developer ergonomics with protocol correctness. Her public portfolio and repo history reveal a rare mix of specification-level thinking and hands-on engineering.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
spec10
javascript10
python10
technical-writing10
css10
searching10
activitypub10
specification10
html10
web-development10
w3c10
documentation10
api-design9
restful-api9
editor9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/activitypub
May 2015 - Oct 2017
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 11 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Amy contributed to the ActivityPub specification documentation. Their work involved revising text, fixing typos, and clarifying points in the specification. They also refactored the document structure by moving sections and adding details about client and server interactions. The contributions also included refining the definition of different ActivityPub-related concepts and their impact.
w3c/did-extensions
Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
Decentralized Identifier Ecosystem Extensions
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:23 reviews, 35 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Amy primarily focused on enhancing the documentation of the DID specification registries. Their commits involved clarifying language, restructuring content, and adding definitions for various properties. They also updated links to normative definitions and added examples, improving the overall clarity and usability of the documentation. Their work included refactoring of the index.html, namespace files.
did-wgdidspec
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