Shawn Mckenzie
Software Development And Documentation Manager
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolShawn Mckenzie is a seasoned documentation and developer experience leader with over two decades of technical writing and content strategy experience, currently managing Developer Experience Content teams at AWS. He leads a 40+ organization of engineers and writers responsible for SDKs, CLIs, code examples, IaC (CloudFormation, CDK), IDE toolkits, and cloud IDEs like Cloud9 and CloudShell, blending product, developer, and content priorities. Shawn’s background spans hands-on XML/DocBook publishing systems, curriculum development, and usability-driven documentation for distributed systems, giving him rare fluency in both engineering and editorial disciplines. He hires and mentors developer-writers who can code, and often shapes product UX through content and user studies rather than just producing docs. Based in Vancouver, he pairs an English literature degree (cum laude) with deep enterprise and cloud documentation expertise to translate complex APIs into practical developer guidance.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, English at University of Nevada-Las VegasEnglish, Literature, Graduated cum laude, English, Literature, Graduated cum laude at The University of New Mexico
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Github Skills (21)
amazon-mq10
aws-services10
amazon-web-services10
aws-sdk10
step-functions10
sdk10
aws10
aws-step-functions10
amazon10
golang9
go8
restructuredtext8
programming-language7
ruby7
php7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/aws-step-functions-developer-guide
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
The open source version of the AWS Step Functions Developer Guide. You can submit feedback & requests for changes by submitting issues in this repo or by making proposed changes & submitting a pull request.
Contributions:39 commits, 18 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 7 months
amazonaws-step-functionssubmitamazon-web-servicespull-request
awsdocs/amazon-mq-developer-guide
Dec 2018 - Feb 2020
The open-source version of the _Amazon MQ Developer Guide_. You can give us feedback and requests for changes by submitting issues in this repository.
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
amazonamazon-mqfeedbackawsdeveloper-guide
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