Kevin Harper
Lead Senior Technical Writer at Magento, an Adobe Company
Pflugerville, Texas, United States
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Kevin Harper is a seasoned technical writer and developer advocate with 11+ years in developer-facing documentation, currently leading technical writing for Magento at Adobe. He specializes in API reference and tutorial creation for GraphQL and REST, builds code samples from scratch, and improves developer experience by editing GraphQL schemas and error messages—work that includes contributions to the prominent magento/magento2 open-source repository. Kevin combines deep enterprise-product experience (identity, payments, security, home automation) with Docs-as-Code practices and tools like Markdown, Git, Postman, and Jekyll to streamline onboarding and maintenance. He’s equally skilled at recruiting and coordinating engineers to produce high-quality docs and at performing informal UAT to surface real-world DX issues. Based in Pflugerville, Texas, he brings a pragmatic blend of technical editing, API fluency, and long-term program-level documentation strategy.
11 years of coding experience
University of Memphis
Github Skills (7)
graphql10
php10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
magento10
ecommerce10
documentation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
magento/magento2
Jul 2018 - Oct 2021
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 33 commits, 91 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on updating GraphQL schema descriptions for various Magento modules within the Magento 2 repository. Their work involved modifying existing GraphQL schema files, specifically targeting the Customer, Catalog, and ConfigurableProduct modules, to improve clarity and documentation. The user also made minor corrections and updates to existing documentation. The contributions indicate a focus on enhancing the developer experience by refining the GraphQL API's documentation.
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AdobeDocs/commerce-services
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Source of the Commerce Services developer guide
Contributions:48 reviews, 21 commits, 14 PRs in 6 months
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