Barry Devlin
Retired at Self-indulgence, Inc
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarry Devlin is a retired technical writer and former software engineer with six years of documented technical-writing experience and a multi-decade background designing and developing large-scale networking and telecom systems. He spent the last decade producing high-quality developer and operations documentation at Amazon—covering AWS APIs, console procedures, and Appstore integrations—and earlier held engineering and director-level roles at Cisco, Nortel/BNR, and networking startups. Known for reliably delivering clear, audience-tailored content on schedule, he pairs hands-on protocol and system design expertise with practical documentation tooling and processes. Based in San Jose, Barry bridges deep legacy telecom knowledge with modern cloud developer needs, an uncommon combination that helps translate complex, low-level systems into usable developer guidance.
6 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Queen's University
Github Skills (16)
amazon10
lambda10
aws-lambda10
serverless10
aws-cloudformation10
notification10
aws10
amazon-web-services10
amazon-comprehend10
translation10
translate10
queue10
amazon-translate10
notification-service10
user-guide10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/amazon-translate-developer-guide
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
The open source version of the Amazon Translate docs. You can submit feedback & requests for changes by submitting issues in this repo or by making proposed changes & submitting a pull request
Contributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
translationamazonsubmittranslatepull-request
awsdocs/amazon-comprehend-developer-guide
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
The open source version of the Amazon Comprehend docs. You can submit feedback & requests for changes by submitting issues in this repo or by making proposed changes & submitting a pull request
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 24 pushes in 11 months
comprehendamazon-comprehendamazonsubmitpull-request
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