Fintan Kelly
Technical Writer at Google
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolFintan Kelly is a technical writer and tool developer at Google with 11 years of experience blending software scripting, research, and creative writing. He brings a rare mix of humanities-trained storytelling (BA in Creative Writing from Virginia Tech) and hands-on engineering experience, having led game scripting with C++/Lua and contributed to VR/AR and crowdsourcing research projects. At Google he focuses on making complex developer tools and documentation clearer and more usable, drawing on past roles in QA, dev ops, and intern work that spanned web maintenance and systems mapping. His background in prose, poetry, and copy editing informs a user-first approach to technical communication that values clarity and narrative flow. Based in Portland, Oregon, he’s comfortable moving between code and content and often explores unconventional ways to surface user needs from community research. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic collaborator who combines editorial rigor with practical scripting chops.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing, 3.1, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing, 3.1 at Virginia TechAdvanced High School Diploma, High School, 3.99, Advanced High School Diploma, High School, 3.99 at Loudoun Valley High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github contributions (5)
FintanKelly/OpenPathsAnalyzer
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
FintanKelly/FintanKelly.github.io
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:32 pushes, 3 branches in 24 days
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