Avital Pinnick
Content Strategist
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAvital Pinnick is a Content Strategist at Red Hat with eight years of hands-on experience bridging technical writing, QA, and DevOps to produce clear, auditable documentation for complex cloud, virtualization, and networking products. Formerly a Principal Technical Writer and Integration/Test Engineer, she combines deep testing experience with automation skills—Ansible, GitLab/GitHub CI, Bash—to streamline documentation workflows and reduce repetitive work. She has led and mentored documentation teams, set up upstream/downstream repos for open-source projects like Konveyor and Forklift, and contributed scripts and tooling to improve release-note and site build processes for projects such as the oVirt site. Comfortable in both managerial and maker roles, she advocates for customers by translating engineering constraints into usable content while keeping an eye on security and AI-driven opportunities. An experienced public speaker and former Toastmasters club president, she mentors colleagues in presentation skills, bringing a rare blend of humanities-trained analytical thinking (PhD-level study) and pragmatic engineering fluency.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Study of Religion, Ph.D, Study of Religion at Harvard UniversityM.A., Religious Studies, M.A., Religious Studies at University of TorontoB.A., Religious Studies, B.A., Religious Studies at University of Toronto - University of St. Michael's College
Github Skills (6)
bash10
asciidoc10
scripting10
documentation10
ovirt9
virtualization8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/ovirt-site
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
oVirt website
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:163 reviews, 101 commits, 193 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Avital primarily contributed to the oVirt website repository by modifying and adding documentation, specifically related to the REST API and release notes. Their work includes cleaning anchor IDs in documentation files, creating and maintaining scripts for updating release notes, and developing a script to build downstream previews and upload them. These changes indicate a focus on improving the documentation workflow and providing clear and up-to-date information for users.
virtualizationovirt-websiteovirt
apinnick/windup-documentation
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Windup Documentation
Contributions:521 pushes, 280 branches in 2 years 6 months
windup
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