Barbara Snyder
Retired at Self
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarbara Snyder is a seasoned technical communicator and information architect with decades of experience translating complex engineering concepts into clear, award-winning documentation for audiences from end users to developers. She has led and designed documentation programs at companies like Splunk, SignalFx, AppDynamics, Adobe/Macromedia and Alcatel, specializing in API/SDK references, installation guides, and modular topic-based doc systems. Known for coordinating cross-functional teams and keeping docs in sync with rapidly changing specs, she built automated workflows and migrated inconsistent doc sets into structured platforms like Sphinx/readthedocs and Confluence. A bilingual presenter who once gave a technical talk in French in Paris and a trained ASL linguist and interpreter, she brings uncommon communication depth to technical teams. Now retired in California, she continues to apply a pragmatic, user-centered approach to documentation and information design when consulting or freelancing.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
AA, Sign Language Interpreting, AA, Sign Language Interpreting at Ohlone CollegeBA, Linguistics, BA, Linguistics at Cornell UniversityMA, American Sign Language (ASL) Linguistics, MA, American Sign Language (ASL) Linguistics at Gallaudet University
English, French, American Sign Language, Hebrew
Github Skills (64)
markdown10
restructuredtext10
sphinx-doc10
electron10
sphinx10
signalfx10
metadata10
mkdocs10
collectd10
github-desktop10
integrations10
sphinx-extension10
python9
typescript9
documentation-generator9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
signalfx/product-docs
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:23 PRs, 20 pushes, 34 branches in 20 days
product-documentationsignalfx
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