Alexander Jerabek
Creative Director
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Jerabek is a creative director and technical writing leader based in Seattle with eight years of experience shaping developer documentation and game creative direction. As Principal Technical Writer Manager at Microsoft, he leads teams that document the Office Platform and has hands-on engineering roots as a former Software Development Engineer. He contributes to prominent open-source projects such as microsoft/rushstack and DefinitelyTyped, improving API documentation tooling and TypeScript definitions for Office-js. His eclectic background—from sous chef and mixology instructor to improv comedian—infuses his leadership with practical service instincts and a flair for clear, engaging communication. That mix of technical depth, product-focused writing, and performance-driven creativity helps him turn complex APIs into approachable developer experiences.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaAssociate of Arts - AA, Culinary Arts/Chef Training, Associate of Arts - AA, Culinary Arts/Chef Training at Seattle Central College
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Github Skills (16)
markdown10
typescript10
nodejs10
javascript10
typescripts10
api10
markdown-it10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
yaml10
office3656
excel6
addin6
powerautomate6
office-js6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
May 2018 - Jan 2023
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:165 reviews, 302 commits, 218 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the development of the `Office-js` library, specifically focusing on TypeScript type definitions. Their commits added, removed, and modified existing type definitions to support features like settings, events, and API updates, particularly for the Word and Excel JavaScript APIs. The user was also responsible for maintaining and correcting the formatting of the type definitions to ensure compatibility with the TSDoc documentation format.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
microsoft/rushstack
Jun 2018 - Mar 2022
Monorepo for tools developed by the Rush Stack community
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 11 PRs, 53 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the `api-documenter` component of the `microsoft/rushstack` repository, specifically focusing on the `OfficeYamlDocumenter`. Their work involved modifying how markdown is parsed, implementing text replacement functions, and adding logic to handle escape characters within code snippets. These changes included refactoring code, adjusting package name parsing, and updating links. The user also made improvements to the example labelling and the overall formatting of example snippets.
apimonorepoeslintapi-extractororchestrator
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