[chrisseaton]

I don't, but if you are interested in doing this then you should definitely give it a go.

Beside actually doing good research in the first place, there should not be major barriers to writing and publishing a paper and I don't think there is the kind of gatekeeping that people think there is. Pick a small conference or workshop to start with, read a few papers from previous years to understand the format, style and conventions of the medium, and then you just write and upload your paper by the deadline. There's no more ceremony or secrets than that compared to writing a good technical blog post.

Of course, your research has to be good in the first place. I've seen people try to write papers and get them knocked back and they think it's because they're outsider, when in reality they didn't actually have a research contribution in the first place.

[borroka]

There is certainly gate-keeping at decent journals. For instance, not having an affiliation with an institution or a company known to carry out research is not the best presentation you can make.

[chrisseaton]

But reviewers will not know who you are affiliated with until reviewing is done and the paper is accepted.

[borroka]

Very few journals do double-blind reviews. Maybe some conferences in CS, but in my field (biology) I never reviewed a paper without knowing who the authors were, along with their affiliation.

[chriskanan]

Double blind reviewing is mostly just a computer science conference thing. Very few journals do it.