Software Engineer
Current• Boosted team productivity by implementing automations and CI/CD solutions usingPython, JavaScript, GitHub Actions, and Docker, including: - Parsing Redpanda’s configuration properties C++ code into JSON and AsciiDoc, generating reference material for documentation. - Automating Redpanda’s rpk reference into AsciiDoc and JSON using Python and Docker. - Documenting automation workflows, presenting them to the writing team, and conducting a workshop during an off-site event.• Collaborated with a global team in a 200+ employee startup, working closely with a core team of up to 5 members to enhance public documentation for Redpanda, an Apache Kafka alternative.• Designed and maintained a public website optimized for SEO and UX using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Handlebars templating.• Recommended tools (eg. Git Fork) and processes/workflows to optimize efficiencies for the doc team.• Authored technical documentation in AsciiDoc, leveraging the Antora framework and deploying through Netlify. Focused on Redpanda CLI (rpk) and configuration properties as the dedicated writer and automation engineer.• Managed multiple GitHub repositories, creating templates for issue creation, streamlining issue tracking and resolution.• Participated in two major docs-as-code migrations: Gatsby to Docusaurus, and Docusaurus to Antora, including a complex transition from Markdown to AsciiDoc.• Released over 12 major versions as a release engineer, ensuring website stability and timely deployments. Authored internal documentation for release workflows and helped define tooling for beta versioning.• Optimizing and troubleshooting issues for documentation search using Algolia.• Installed and configured Kapa.ai, an AI-driven documentation assistant, integrating it into Redpanda’s website to deliver contextual answers based on the knowledge base.