Beck Andros
Senior Technical Editor at Amazon
South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolBeck Andros is a Senior Technical Editor with 11+ years in developer-focused content and over three decades in technical publishing, currently shaping AWS SDK and service documentation at Amazon. They blend content strategy, information architecture, and developer experience work—mapping customer journeys and designing content models that make complex APIs and SDKs usable. At Microsoft they led content strategy for Office developer docs, and their hands-on edits to the high-profile aws-doc-sdk-examples repo demonstrate a practical commitment to clarity in real code examples. A presenter and project lead as well as a writer and developer, Beck pairs a creative-writing BFA with deep technical editorial chops to translate engineering intent into effective developer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Creative writing; biology, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Creative writing; biology at Stephens College
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
java7
python7
javas7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Welcome to the AWS Code Examples Repository. This repo contains code examples used in the AWS documentation, AWS SDK Developer Guides, and more. For more information, see the Readme.md file below.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 reviews, 104 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
Contributions summary:Beck primarily focused on making edits to README and documentation files across the repository. Their contributions involved updating descriptions, correcting comments, and refining the structure of the documentation for multiple Java and Python examples. These changes improve the clarity and usability of the documentation for the AWS SDK examples, making the code more accessible to other developers.
dotnetcpppythonjavascriptphp
awsdocs/aws-ruby-developer-guide
Sep 2016 - Mar 2020
Source for the AWS SDK for Ruby Developer Guide. Provides information about how to install, set up, and use the AWS SDK for Ruby to create Ruby applications that use AWS services.
Contributions:22 commits, 19 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 6 months
rubyaws-sdksdkaws-servicesset-up
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