Shana Matthews
Developer Advocate
United States
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Top SchoolShana Matthews is a Developer Advocate and documentation engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing content, tooling, and communities across cloud, VR, and open-source projects. Currently at Meta leading Quest VR developer advocacy, she previously led Horizon Worlds docs-as-code strategy and owned Sentry’s SDK documentation and Gatsby-based docs site. A Python enthusiast who created widely used learning content at Microsoft (reaching hundreds of thousands of developers), she combines hands-on front-end and full-stack work with technical writing and developer education. Her open-source contributions span docs front-end improvements at Sentry and full-stack integrations for Microsoft’s AcademicContent, including AI/ML and Cognitive Services work. Shana is skilled at turning complex APIs into approachable tutorials and tooling, and she often pairs small UI tweaks with SEO and canonical improvements that boost documentation discoverability. She brings a blend of product-oriented engineering, content strategy, and classroom-curated cloud learning to help developers ship faster.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Swedish, English, Mongolian, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
documentation10
python9
apidoc9
gatsby9
api9
seo9
computer-vision8
microsoft-azure7
azure7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AcademicContent
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
Free tech resources for faculty, students, researchers, life-long learners, and academic community builders for use in tech based courses, workshops, and hackathons.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 243 commits, 141 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Shana contributed to various aspects of the project, including front-end and back-end integrations. The commits show modifications to Javascript code for front-end logic and modifications in Python that likely pertain to AI and ML components based on the repository description. The user also worked on integrating with Cognitive Services APIs. The user's contributions spanned multiple files and involved merging branches.
tech-resourcespythontech-talksfacultylearners
getsentry/sentry-docs
Nov 2022 - Jun 2024
Sentry's documentation (and tools to build it)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:918 reviews, 324 PRs, 293 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Shana primarily contributes to the documentation site's front-end development. Their work includes adding spacing and margin to images and code blocks, as well as fixing and improving various components such as platform links and the banner. They also made changes to the SEO and API-related components. This user also updated the FE tutorial and implemented canonical tags.
gatsbysentry-documentationgatsbyjssentrytag-production
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