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:
- Documented coala's Nextgen Core Architecture as an individual contributor. PR Link
- Successfully completed Google Summer of Code '18 under coala (contributing both code and docs)
- Working as an intern under CNCF on the coredns project, writing code and documentation for a Google Cloud plugin. PR Link
- Have a strong understanding of both building and consuming REST APIs and working with JSON
- Experience in working with rst and markdown
- Well versed with unix and git (been using it everyday for 2 years)
- Experience in all aspects of documentation including, improving upon existing feature documentation, adding new feature docs and writing onboarding material.
- Have a basic understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing platforms like GCP, AWS
- Familiar with CI/CD like Travis and CircleCI
- 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