Alex Ball
Senior Techical Writer at NVIDIA
Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Ball is a senior technical writer and documentation leader with over 25 years of experience and more than a decade managing docs teams for developer-focused products. He specializes in docs-as-code, single-source strategies, and automating CI/CD documentation pipelines—cutting build times from about 30 minutes to 2 minutes at Yugabyte and implementing similar systems at PubNub and other clients. Alex has led large API and product doc efforts for distributed databases, realtime messaging, and enterprise platforms, while mentoring writers and coaching engineers to own content. Based in Ladysmith, BC, he pairs deep technical writing expertise with hands-on ops and repository administration across multi-repo builds and integrations. An uncommon blend of skills comes from a decade of volunteer technical rescue and EMT work, which informs his pragmatic, procedure-first approach to high-stakes documentation.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA unfinished Technology and Culture, BA unfinished Technology and Culture at Trent UniversityEMT-Basic Emergency Medicine, EMT-Basic Emergency Medicine at Front Range Community College
French, German
Github Skills (5)
markdown10
hugo10
markdown-it10
documentation10
technical-writing10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
polarweasel/yugabyte-db
Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
The high-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale apps.
Contributions:1 PR, 876 pushes, 492 branches in 2 years
distributed-sql-databasedistributed-systemsdatabasesqlscale
suranjan/yugabyte-db
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
The high-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale apps.
Contributions:13 commits in 7 days
connection-poololtpdistributed-sql-databasesql-databasesql
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