EoinShaughnessy
Technical Writer
Summary
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RockstarTechnical Writer with five years' experience focused on making government-facing developer tools clearer and more usable, currently contributing to the GOV.UK Digital Identity architecture team. Specializes in documentation design and user-focused prose, having improved tutorials, navigation, and example clarity within the widely used GOV.UK Prototype Kit. Comfortable working in open-source environments and translating technical patterns into step-by-step guides and downloadable resources. Brings a practical understanding of how documentation impacts onboarding and developer productivity in public-sector projects. Notably attentive to small wording and UX details that reduce friction for non-specialist users.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
prototyping10
documentation10
html9
web-content8
content-model8
e-government7
g7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/govuk-prototype-kit
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Rapidly create HTML prototypes of GOV.UK services
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:216 reviews, 50 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:EoinShaughnessy's contributions primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation within the GOV.UK Prototype Kit. They updated the tutorial pages to reflect the use of step-by-step navigation, differentiated link text in "About" and "Tutorial" pages, and added PDFs to the basic usage documentation. Furthermore, they made minor wording adjustments to examples used in the application. This work centers around improving usability and clarity for users of the kit.
govprototype-kitprototypingprototypesgovernment
alphagov/govuk-design-system
Oct 2020 - May 2022
One place for service teams to find styles, components and patterns for designing government services.
Contributions:340 reviews, 168 commits, 145 PRs in 1 year 7 months
placereactstyles-componentsgovuk-design-systemstyles
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