Paul Kamp
Senior Principal, Technical Editor-in-Chief at Twilio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Kamp is a Senior Principal and Technical Editor-in-Chief at Twilio with nine years of focused experience turning complex APIs and developer workflows into clear, usable documentation and code examples. He combines hands-on backend development—contributing API snippets, SMS examples, and Lambda request-validation samples—with strategic content leadership across technical and non-technical teams on the Developer Voices program. Prior to editorial leadership he built developer-facing code and education, specializing in Python (Django, Flask, AWS Lambda), PHP, and C/C++ for IoT, and earlier in his career he wrote EDA/CAD tools at Intel in C++ and Tcl. Paul also runs a high-traffic finance and economics site that drives over 10 million annual pageviews, giving him practical SEO, analytics, and product-facing engineering experience. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep engineering pedigree with editorial rigor, making APIs approachable while shipping production-ready snippets and integrations. Colleagues rely on him to bridge documentation, developer education, and code-quality in ways that reduce onboarding friction and improve real-world developer success.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of Southern California
Github Skills (11)
twilio-api10
sms-messages10
messaging10
sms10
python10
apidoc9
api9
lambda7
lambdas7
php6
javascript5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
TwilioDevEd/api-snippets
Jan 2017 - Nov 2019
Code snippets for the Twilio API Documentation
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 47 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to code snippets related to the Twilio API Documentation. The commits focused on updating and modifying code examples, particularly those involving SMS messaging and the `provideFeedback` parameter. They also added an example for request validation using Lambda with Python 2.7. Furthermore, the user was involved in merging branches and refactoring code snippets, along with implementing Twilio proxy functionalities.
apitwilioapi-documentationsnippetstwilio-api
TwilioDevEd/twilio_esp8266_arduino_example
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
Sending messages in C++ with the ESP8266 and the Arduino IDE
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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