Sarah Chavis
Senior Technical Writer at IBM
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Chavis is a Senior Technical Writer in the San Francisco Bay Area who turns complex engineering and security concepts into clear software and API documentation. With over 5 years of focused technical writing, she has built developer content programs at Square, shaped content strategy and style for Project Bonsai at Microsoft, and led documentation for enterprise teams at Google. At HashiCorp she made hands-on GitHub contributions to the widely used Vault project—updating deprecation pages, CLI/audit docs, and website redirects—to keep security-sensitive docs accurate during feature and lifecycle changes. Now at IBM, she continues to blend editorial rigor with practical tooling and release processes to ship audit-ready docs. Colleagues rely on her ability to align product vocabulary, UX improvements, and engineering workflows into concise, consumable guidance.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (7)
api-documentation10
documentations10
vault10
documentation10
cli9
secrets8
go4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
May 2023 - Apr 2025
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1179 reviews, 689 PRs, 1132 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Sarah's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating documentation, specifically focusing on the `website/redirects.js` file. These changes include updating deprecation pages, refreshing CLI content for audit commands, and making AD secrets plugins EOL. The impact of these changes is to enhance the user experience and accurately reflect the current state of features and API changes within the HashiCorp Vault project. This suggests a focus on maintaining and improving the documentation aspect of the project.
golanghashicorp-vaultaccess-managementsecurityvault
schavis/vault
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 days
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