Eric Shepherd
Software Engineer at AWS
Maryville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Shepherd is a software engineer with five years of experience specializing in developer-focused SDK work for AWS, particularly in Python and Swift. Based in Maryville, Tennessee, he blends full-stack development with technical writing, improving SDK examples and documentation to make cloud APIs more accessible. At Amazon he contributes to widely used projects like the AWS code examples repository and boto3, adding Swift S3 multipart upload examples and refining Boto3 quickstarts and migration guides. His work emphasizes correctness and up-to-date SDK alignment, bridging code and prose so developers can adopt cloud features reliably. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic example code that surfaces real-world behaviors (e.g., multipart uploads and SQS usage) rather than synthetic snippets. He pairs hands-on coding with clear documentation—an asset for teams shipping SDKs and developer guides.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
swift10
boto10
aws10
amazon-s310
amazon-sqs10
documentation10
aws-sdk10
testing9
python9
cloud-manager9
management9
gatsbyjs9
manage9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Welcome to the AWS Code Examples Repository. This repo contains code examples used in the AWS documentation, AWS SDK Developer Guides, and more. For more information, see the Readme.md file below.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 109 commits, 92 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the development of an Amazon S3 example by adding, testing and updating the Swift code. They improved the existing code base to align with the most recent SDK and also incorporated multi-part upload capabilities. Their focus was on ensuring the code runs correctly. The user also added examples for Amazon SQS.
awsaws-sdkjavacppdotnet
boto/boto3
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Boto3, an AWS SDK for Python
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:22 reviews, 17 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily focused on updating and improving the Boto3 documentation. The commits involve modifications to quickstart guides, migration guides, and configuration documentation. The changes reflect updates to the documentation, including addressing deprecation notices, adding configuration information related to proxies and CRT support, and incorporating updates to S3 bucket names, credential configuration, and the footer.
aws-sdkbotopythonawscloud
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