Barton Wright
Principal Technical Writer, Product Lead at Starburst
New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarton Wright is a Principal Technical Writer and product lead with over 30 years in the computer industry and a decade of focused experience shaping documentation for distributed data platforms. He currently leads the docs team for Starburst Galaxy—built on the widely used open-source Trino engine—and contributes directly to Trino’s GitHub docs, improving clarity around security and connector configuration. Barton excels at architecting documentation build pipelines (Jekyll, Sphinx, DocBook XML, Maven) and migrating large, legacy doc sets into maintainable, Git-backed workflows. He has repeatedly guided documentation through product mergers and platform transitions, acting as an unofficial QA partner to ensure docs reflect real-world behavior. Based in New Hampshire, he pairs deep systems knowledge with practical hands-on testing (including firmware and clustering runtimes), which helps him translate complex technical change into usable guidance. He also prefers connecting only with people he’s worked with, reflecting his pragmatic, collaboration-first approach to professional networks.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA (incomplete) Liberal Arts, BA (incomplete) Liberal Arts at St. John's CollegeAttorney Assistant Program, Attorney Assistant Program at UCLA Extension
Github Skills (5)
security10
documentation10
sql8
javas6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
trinodb/trino
Jul 2020 - Feb 2025
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:410 reviews, 35 PRs, 420 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Barton's contributions primarily focus on improving the documentation for the Trino project. They added and updated documentation related to command-line options, security features (HTTPS, TLS, JWT), and various configuration properties for connectors like Hive and Iceberg. The changes involve rewriting existing documentation for clarity, adding new sections, and correcting formatting issues. Their work is focused on enhancing the user experience and providing comprehensive information about the Trino engine.
prestodbdbmsindexingjdbcbigdata
Ordinant/trino
Oct 2021 - May 2022
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Contributions:34 pushes, 11 branches in 7 months
hbasebigdatabig-datatrinodatabase
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