Andrew May
Senior Technical Writer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew May is a senior technical writer based in Seattle with over two decades of experience shaping developer documentation for Microsoft and AWS, and currently focused on developer-facing content at Amazon and Unstructured. He has a track record of leading large teams and automation efforts—doubling CloudFormation coverage and launching automated event and resource reference systems that measurably boosted customer satisfaction and documentation throughput. Known for blending content strategy, content engineering, and hands-on training, he has created training programs and tooling that scaled writing across dozens of contributors. His background in journalism and early technical roles gives him a rare mix of editorial rigor and systems thinking, enabling him to simplify complex APIs into usable, automated reference material.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Journalism, BS, Journalism at Ohio University
Github Skills (7)
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
amazon-web-services10
documentation10
user-guide10
amazon9
java5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/aws-cloudformation-user-guide
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
The open source version of the AWS CloudFormation User Guide
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 6 months
aws-cloudformationuser-guideamazon-web-servicesawscloudformation
ajmay-aws/cloudformation-cli-java-plugin
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
The CloudFormation Provider Development Toolkit Java Plugin allows you to autogenerate java code based on an input schema.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
providerjava-pluginamazon-web-servicesautogenerateaws
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