Company
Date Published
Author
DigitalOcean
Word count
953
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

DigitalOcean's Senior Technical Writer II, Alex Garnett, shares his experience writing for the company's community website, which provides thousands of tutorials on various cloud topics. As a technical writer, Alex takes complex concepts and makes them usable by a broader audience, often covering popular and useful content. He enjoys making content more accessible to people and writing about complex topics in an easy-to-understand way. Alex credits his career transition from digital archivist to technical writer to the Recurse center organization, which he attended during his career change. Outside of work, Alex enjoys traveling, photography, and training in Krav Maga, as well as collecting kitschy items like vintage advertising. He values the team culture at DigitalOcean and finds it enjoyable to work with a company that shares its commitment to simplicity for developers.