Patrick Fletcher
Senior Programmer Writer at Snowflake
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Fletcher is a Senior Programmer Writer with 20+ years across development, testing, developer support, and documentation, currently shaping developer experience at Snowflake after an eight-year tenure at AWS. He’s been the single-author or lead technical writer for complex data services like Kinesis, DMS, and Redshift, routinely working in Oxygen XML, GitHub, and Linux to produce production-grade docs. His background as a software test engineer and developer-support lead gives him a rare end-to-end perspective on how code, runtime behavior, and documentation intersect. Based in Seattle, he blends humanities-trained clarity (MA and BA in History) with technical rigor from a Technical Writing certificate, enabling him to turn complex distributed-systems concepts into practical guidance. Colleagues rely on him to anticipate developer pain points and translate them into usable tutorials, reference materials, and troubleshooting workflows.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Writing and Editing Certificate, Technical Writing and Editing Certificate at Bellevue CollegeMaster's Degree, European History, Master's Degree, European History at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor's Degree, History, Bachelor's Degree, History at Seattle University
English, Italian, Spanish, German
Github Skills (25)
amazon-kinesis10
javascript10
dms10
dotnet10
amazon-web-services10
analytics10
java10
aws-sdk10
php10
kinesis-video-streams10
sdk10
aws10
aws-dms10
cpp10
amazon10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/aws-sct-user-guide
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
The open source version of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool docs. You can submit feedback & requests for changes by submitting issues in this repo or by making proposed changes & submitting a pull request.
Contributions:8 commits, 9 pushes in 8 months
conversion-toolsubmitamazon-web-servicespull-requestfeedback
awsdocs/amazon-kinesis-data-analytics-developer-guide
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
Developer guide documentation for Amazon Kinesis Analytics
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 3 months
kinesisanalyticsamazonamazon-kinesiskinesis-analytics
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