Jeff Kaminski
Staff Lead Technical Writer at Barnes & Nobles Bookstore
Wexford, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Kaminski is a Staff Lead Technical Writer with 11+ years in cloud and developer-focused documentation and a deep engineering pedigree dating back to the early WebSphere and file-system days. He blends hands-on coding contributions to high-profile open-source SDKs for IBM Watson (Java and Python) with enterprise documentation leadership at IBM and Salesforce, specializing in DITA/Oxygen and data/cloud products. Comfortable shipping tests, examples, and API features (notably enhancing Speech-to-Text corpus management and Personality Insights v3), he bridges developer experience and product engineering. Jeff holds advanced degrees in computer and information science from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS in Technical Writing from Carnegie Mellon, reflecting a rare dual fluency in code and communication. Based in Wexford, PA, he pairs veteran program-level leadership with day-to-day technical contributions that meaningfully improve SDK usability for external developers.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of PittsburghBS, Technical Writing and Editing, BS, Technical Writing and Editing at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
api10
sdk10
python10
apidoc10
java10
unit-testing9
json9
rest-api8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
:snake: Client library to use the IBM Watson services in Python and available in pip as watson-developer-cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 20 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to enhancing the Personality Insights v3 service within the python-sdk repository. Their commits focused on implementing support for version 3 of the API, as well as updating tests and adding examples. The user's work involved modifying the `personality_insights_v3.py` and `test/test_personality_insights_v3.py` files to include various tests for different input content types.
ibm-watsonpythonwatson
watson-developer-cloud/java-sdk
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
:1st_place_medal: Java SDK to use the IBM Watson services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 20 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the implementation of the `getCorpus()` method within the Java SDK for IBM Watson's Speech to Text service. Their work involved adding this new functionality to the main `SpeechToText` class and providing associated test cases. They also added the `count` attribute to the `WordData` object, and included updates to example code. The user's contributions focused on enhancing the API's capabilities for managing and accessing corpora within the speech-to-text customization process.
ibm-watsonjavawatsonibm-watson-servicesbluemix
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