Hi,
I am an open-source developer with over 2 years of experience in contributing to open source projects. Most of my contributions are code but I have contributed documentation too in the past and would like to try a technical writing gig for a change. My interest in distributed systems and writing high-quality documentation attracted me towards this opportunity. Here are some highlights of my career that satisfy the requirements mentioned in the job description:
  1. Documented coala's Nextgen Core Architecture as an individual contributor. PR Link
  2. Successfully completed Google Summer of Code '18 under coala  (contributing both code and docs)
  3. Working as an intern under CNCF on the coredns project, writing code and documentation for a Google Cloud plugin. PR Link
  4. Have a strong understanding of both building and consuming REST APIs and working with JSON
  5. Experience in working with rst and markdown
  6. Well versed with unix and git (been using it everyday for 2 years)
  7. Experience in all aspects of documentation including, improving upon existing feature documentation, adding new feature docs and writing onboarding material.
  8. Have a basic understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing platforms like GCP, AWS
  9. Familiar with CI/CD like Travis and CircleCI
  10. Other doc contributions to OSS projects include: Kong, Ethereum Foundation, coala[1], coala[2], Elastic APM, etc
For a detailed description of my skills please take a look at the resume attached below.

Expected stipend / salary range: 1000 to 2000 USD per month