Kevin Macdonald
Senior Information Developer
Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Macdonald is a Senior Information Developer at IBM with more than 25 years of experience translating complex technology into clear, actionable documentation for enterprise AI and cloud services. He authors DITA and Markdown content and API references for core Watson services—including OpenScale, Assistant, NLU, and containerized developer libraries—while building single-sourcing authoring models and tooling to scale documentation. Beyond tech, he brings nearly 15 years of museum curatorial experience, managing and interpreting 18th- and 19th-century maritime collections as a volunteer curator, a background that informs his strength in narrative, preservation, and audience-focused communication. Kevin’s blend of deep technical documentation skills, content architecture experience, and museum-trained research instincts makes him adept at turning intricate, risk-sensitive systems into usable guidance that drives business value.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, English, Bachelor of Arts, English at Framingham State UniversityMarian High SchoolMaster of Arts, Writing, Master of Arts, Writing at Northeastern UniversityMaster of Arts, Museum studies, Master of Arts, Museum studies at Harvard Extension School
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Github Skills (45)
watson10
ibm-cloud10
ibm-watson10
language-understanding10
natural-language-understanding9
language-translation9
watson-assistant9
nlp9
visual-recognition8
speech-to-text8
natural-language-processing8
sdk8
tone-analyzer8
comet8
personality-insights8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-cloud-docs/ai-openscale
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:102 PRs, 233 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
kmacdonald06/conversation
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:189 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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