Dev Prakash Sharma

Operations Associate

Hyderabad, Telangana, India7 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led documentation for major tech companies.
  • Organized over 100 tech community events.
  • Expert in API documentation and user guides.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Documentation Specialist with a strong background in Community Development and Open Source contributions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Api DocumentationDocumentationCommunity DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentProject ManagementMachine Learning

Other Skills

end-to-end documentationuser documentationrelease notesdocumentation standardizationPOC projectDocusaurusTypeScriptJavaScriptPublic SpeakingGitHub REST APIsGitHub DocsSecurity practicesDocumentation strategyContent strategySwagger

About

An experienced tech writer with a diverse taste in technologies, an independent open-source developer, and FOSS community member. He is known for being valued member of global developer communities, learning new technologies quickly, and pretty enthusiast about businesses, finance, and AI. Dev's skills in writing involves streamlining end-to-end documentation for multi-asset businesses to EdTech to foundational technologies-those screwing the nuts and bolts (0 and 1) of modern technological evolvement. He is a part-time ambitious overthinker, who loves to explore, read, and invest his time in reading new books, technical blogs, jamming technical ideas, and solving math problems. Reach out to him at idevprakaash[at]gmail[dot]com for any collaboration on open-source projects, tech discussions, or on-demand mentorship sessions. )

Experience

7 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

The d. e. shaw group

2 roles

Senior Member, TechWriting

Promoted

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Member, TechWriting

Nov 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Closely collaborated with Data Infrastructure teams (like Services Platform with Caching using in-house Caching frameworks) to help their client groups to onboard to service platform using end to end getting started guide, API documentation, and understand crucial components of critical infrastructure.
  • Closely worked with Primary Research Group to help financial researchers and analysts to use the tool for all their primary research for consulting using end to end user documentation.
  • Drove the ideas for standardizing release notes, RCA, and documentation for example apps.
  • Worked with the Enterprise Middleware team to help create, enhance, and restructure the entire product, internal, and API documentation of various real-time trading messaging, streaming, and web tools like Kafka and infrastructure-as-services.
  • Created POC project for automating TypeScript and JavaScript API documentation generation using in-line comments in the codebase using Docusaurus, TypeDoc, and other plugins.
  • Created documentation for variety of example projects for various web and streaming tools leveraging in-house data streaming and open source technologies like Kafka.
API documentationend-to-end documentationuser documentationrelease notesdocumentation standardizationPOC project+1

Chargebee

Senior Technical Writer - Product

Sep 2021Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

SwaggerPostmanAPI documentationUser DocsDocumentation

Personal.ai

Engineering Consultant and Documentation Lead

Jun 2021Jan 2022 · 7 mos · San Diego, CA · Remote

  • Led documentation and consulting engineering efforts for the Personal AI team during the foundation phase.
  • Collaborated with the CEO and CTO to propose product enhancements and develop engineering processes.
  • Designed content strategy and information architecture for developer-facing documentation and APIs.
  • Authored comprehensive documentation for internal and public-facing APIs and SDK, enhancing user experience.
API documentationUser DocsContent strategyDocumentation

Github

2 roles

Tech Writer (Intern), GitHub Docs

Mar 2021Sep 2021 · 6 mos

  • Conceptualised docs, refactored docs across versions, and strategised content for products in GitHub Docs (https://docs.github.com/).
  • Closely worked with GitHub Docs team to prepare content strategy, build documentation pipeline (docs-as-code) on mainstream servers and curated information architecture.
  • Wide contribution on the GitHub REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, GitHub contribution graph, Codespaces, and other map topics.
  • Prepared content strategies for examples of testing APIs and enhanced the existing docs.
  • Worked with GitHub Peers (Engineers, Technical Writers, SMEs, Product managers, and other POCs of GitHub docs).
  • Contribution to GitHub wiki.
Documentation strategyContent strategyAPI documentationDocumentation

Developer Community & GCE

Nov 2018Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Led tech communities across campuses and institutions globally, fostering open source development.
  • Organized and hosted over 100 events, including hackathons, podcasts, and webinars on emerging technologies with industry experts from organisations .
  • Contributed to the vibrant ecosystem of developer communities by participating in GitHub Universe watch parties in 2020 and 2022.
  • Contributed significantly to GitHub Docs as a top contributor, enhancing documentation quality and accessibility.
  • Focused on GitHub REST APIs, ensuring comprehensive coverage and clarity for developers.
  • Engaged in security and deployment practices, improving overall system integrity and reliability.
  • Developed skills in monitoring, troubleshooting, integration, and containerization, vital for modern software development.
Community DevelopmentPublic SpeakingGitHub REST APIsGitHub DocsSecurity practicesDocumentation

Tutorialspoint

Technical Author

Dec 2020Sep 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Created full-fledged self-paced learning tutorials for various tech stacks ranging from data structures in Python, C++, Java web testing (Selenium).
  • Curated full-fledged tutorials that included fully plagiarism free content for Python libraries, GUI libraries, Java frameworks (Guvava, Selenium), data science libraries (Matplotlib, Pandas), imaging libraries, and more.
  • Posted more than 800 articles, Q&A based on various tech stacks that significantly increased the TutorialsPoint site traffic and improved Google SEO search index.
Content StrategyUser DocsSEODocumentation

Learnscript tech

Founding Member

Oct 2020Feb 2021 · 4 mos · Delhi, India

  • Spearheaded the foundation of a local tech community “LearnScript”. A community driven by tech enthusiasts and industry leaders to teach and share about the new tech opportunities, interview experiences, and learning about new technologies. The community hosted multiple hackathons with over 200 participants and distributed prizes ( tees and swags) sponsored by GitHub and Hackclub.
  • The community also helped people to learn about contributing to GSoC, GSoD, and Hacktoberfest. We hosted Hacktoberfest events as enablers for tech enthusiasts to participate in Hacktoberfest and contribute to open source technologies.
  • We also invited industry experts and various community leaders to our podcast to share their experiences and journey.

Hackerearth

SDE Intern

Oct 2020Dec 2020 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Tested web pack for Hacker Earth's standard user contribution panel module across multiple browsers using Selenium. Wrote automation scripts and maintained the builds that performed execution on 231k+ user contribution entries.
  • Analysed and debugged the duplicated entries in the managed database.
Community buildingHackathon organizationCommunity Development

Coloredcow

Software Developer

Jun 2020Aug 2020 · 2 mos · Tehri, Uttarakhand, India · Hybrid

  • Worked on a project based on Laravel, PHP, and HTML/CSS.
  • Have experienced the agile methodology to measure the ongoing success metrics of projects.
  • Created E-library: a full-fledged online library that allows users to read, swipe, rent, and purchase books online. Several PHP algorithms and APIs have been used to perform special operations on GUI. Oracle database has been used to store data and record real-time operations on data.
TestingAutomation scriptsSoftware Development

Attainu

Community Builder

Mar 2020Aug 2020 · 5 mos

PHPWeb Development

Google summer of code

Mentor, OpenCV, Google Summer of Code

Jan 2020Apr 2020 · 3 mos · Remote

  • Mentored GSoC participants and thoroughly reviewed their project proposals, suggested changes to the proposals and helped their projects to get accepted by OpenCV.
  • Reviewed contributor’s projects thoroughly and problem statement that helped them frame new ideas for participating in GSoC!
  • Reviewed the contributor’s code and performed checks to check whether they align with the organization’s open source guidelines.
  • Got a chance to network with OpenCV core contributors.

Google

Code-in Mentor

Nov 2019Jan 2020 · 2 mos · Remote

  • Facilitated tech community and mentored pre-university students of age under 13-17years to contribute to Open Source development during 12 weeks long Mentorship Program. I had helped them to contribute to the open source documentation for Tensorflow community backed by Google. I got a chance to network with other fellow mentors and program manager. During my tenure, ico-operated with Paige Bailey. The program was fully operated and funded by Google.

Scaler

Community Builder

Sep 2019Aug 2020 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Spearheaded the Scaler's community growth by hosting technical events, hackathons, and sessions on the areas of DSA and C++/Python.

The economic times

ET Campus Star

Aug 2019Feb 2020 · 6 mos · On-site

  • Finalist in the ET campus star among 40 other brightest engineers across the country. A 12 weeks prestigious leadership, engineering, and analytical skill hunt program run by Economic Times(Times Internet).
  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1az-SLwYQj7QSkId0iu7d1mzqSwVtaAxv/view?usp=sharing
MentoringProject reviewsProject Management

Microsoft

Microsoft Student Partners

Jul 2019Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · India

  • Hosted technical workshops, events, hackathons in campuses sponsored by Microsoft.
  • Delivered talks and sessions on building AI applications with Microsoft Azure and BI development. Built local tech community in campus to promote Microsoft technologies and open source development with Azure AI, holding 600+ community members and tech enthusiasts.

Iit roorkee greater noida campus

Data Science and ML Research Intern

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Greater Noida · On-site

  • Worked on a project with fellow researchers to study about the KNN algorithm and implemented the colonization (ACO) algorithms with 97% accurate precision. The accuracy was achieved in a single-core GPU (hybrid) system. We ran multiple tests to get optimized results and used optimizer to improve the training performance.
MentoringOpen Source contributionDocumentation

Diginique techlabs

Internship in Data Analytics and Machine Learning

May 2019Jun 2019 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • 1. Experience with Open Source Python IDE ( Anaconda with Jupyter Notebook)
  • 2. Experience with Data Science Open Source Libraries such as Pandas, NumPy.
  • 3. Experience with various DataSets and Algorithm such as KNN, CNN.
  • 4. Experience with Machine Learning libs. Training and testing datasets with open source packages such as Tensorflow, Keras;
  • 5. Neural Networking: Layers Creation, CNN, DNN
  • Worked on different Projects based on Deep Learning with the use of DNN.
Machine LearningData Analysis

Education

Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur

Master of Computer Applications - MCA

Aug 2018Nov 2021

IIT Roorkee Greater Noida Campus

Research Intern (Data Science and ML)

May 2019Nov 2019

Christ Church College, Kanpur

Bachelor of Science - BS (Hons.) — Computational and Applied Mathematics

Jun 2015Oct 2017

SGM International School, Indra Nagar, Kanpur

Senior Secondry School

Jan 2012Jan 2015

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