Kevin Whinnery
Head Of Marketing And Developer Relations
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Whinnery is a seasoned developer-experience leader with 17 years building SDKs, docs, and developer programs for platforms like OpenAI, Deno, Twilio, and Retool. He blends hands-on JavaScript and backend engineering—authoring Twilio’s popular Node SDK and contributing widely to Twilio’s API libraries—with product-oriented leadership of DevRel, docs, and training teams. Kevin has shipped developer tooling and documentation platforms at scale (including a unified docs site for Deno and docs/SDK releases at OpenAI) and created TwilioQuest, an educational game enjoyed by over a million players. A practiced public speaker and technical communicator, he pairs keynote-ready storytelling with API design and release engineering chops. Based in the Twin Cities, he also brings a marketer’s sense for positioning APIs and a pragmatic habit of turning community feedback into product improvements.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Political Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts Political Science Computer Science at Macalester College
Spanish
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Github Skills (35)
mvc-framework10
api-rest10
javascript10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
titanium10
twilio-api10
apache-http-client10
google-app-engine10
java10
javas10
api10
titanium-alloy10
jtest10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
TwilioDevEd/api-snippets
Jan 2016 - Jun 2019
Code snippets for the Twilio API Documentation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:111 commits, 47 PRs, 62 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributes to code snippets for the Twilio API documentation, focusing on back-end and API-related tasks. They modify code examples, often updating URLs, and adding or improving code comments, especially within the context of notification services and SMS functionality. Code changes span multiple programming languages and frameworks utilized by the Twilio platform, including Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python and C#.
apitwilioapi-documentationsnippetstwilio-api
twilio/twilio-node
Dec 2012 - Oct 2019
Node.js helper library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:147 commits, 13 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on implementing and refining the backend logic for the Twilio Node.js helper library. Their contributions included adding new resources, such as available phone numbers, and improving existing ones, like the Accounts and SMS resources. They also introduced promise-based interfaces and refactored code to enhance the developer experience. A significant portion of the work involved generating REST functions and creating a consistent API for interacting with the Twilio services.
twimltwilionode-jsjavascripthelper-library
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