Abdon Pijpelink
Technical Writer at Qdrant
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAbdon Pijpelink is a technical writer and enablement specialist with 11 years of experience helping customers get the most value from complex search and analytics products. Based in Amsterdam, he has held progressive roles at Elastic—spanning education, curriculum leadership, and documentation—and now writes at Qdrant, blending teaching, sales engineering, and writing skills. His open-source contributions to flagship Elastic projects like Elasticsearch and Kibana show a hands-on focus on improving ES|QL in-product help, examples, and docs to make advanced query features accessible. Known for turning intricate technical details into clear, usable guidance, he also brings practical engineering experience from early software and research roles in computational chemistry and search systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Chemistry, Masters Chemistry at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
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Github Skills (15)
markdown10
markdown-it10
documentation10
technical-writing10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
kibana9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
javascript8
user-interface7
search-engine3
javas3
java3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:495 reviews, 131 commits, 640 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Abdon's commits primarily involve documentation updates. They are focused on modifying and updating the landing page, removing whitespace, and adding ES|QL code snippets to CSV tests. The user demonstrates expertise in clarifying and improving the existing documentation and providing better examples. This indicates a strong focus on enhancing the user experience through comprehensive documentation.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
elastic/kibana
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:20 reviews, 4 commits, 29 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Abdon primarily contributed to the ES|QL in-product help documentation within the Kibana repository. Their work involved adding, removing, and updating function descriptions, examples, and overall structure. The user also corrected argument orders and updated links to documentation, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information for users of the ES|QL query language. Additionally, the user made changes to the documentation links and the way documentation is displayed in the application, to improve the user experience.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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