Billy Tat
Project Manager Technical Documentation
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Tat is a seasoned technical documentation leader with 12 years of experience blending hands-on writing, front-end documentation work, and product-focused program management across cloud and PaaS ecosystems. Currently a Project Manager for Technical Documentation at SUSE, he progressed from technical writer to team lead and now manages documentation delivery for complex enterprise products. His background includes product management and developer-facing roles at ActiveState and HPE, where he translated customer feedback and sample apps into roadmap and documentation improvements. An active contributor to notable open-source docs like rancher/rancher-docs, he pairs UI-oriented changes (nav/sidebar, redirects) with content strategy to improve discoverability. Based in Vancouver and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Simon Fraser, he brings a rare mix of engineering, product empathy, and documentation UX to bridge developers and customers.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Terry Fox Secondary SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
markdown10
docusaurus10
markdown-it10
documentation10
github7
javascript6
python6
front-end-development5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher-docs
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
The Rancher Documentation was moved. For details, refer to our README at https://github.com/rancher/rancher-docs/blob/main/README.md.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Frontend Developer
Technical Writer & Frontend DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 1028 reviews, 224 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Billy primarily contributed to the project's documentation, including updating configuration URLs, adding Algolia values, and syncing content from another repository. They also modified the sidebar configuration files, adding and removing links to various documentation sections and guides. Additionally, the user implemented redirects and added a navbar link, indicating some involvement with website structure and user interface aspects.
rancher
rancher/rke1-docs
Oct 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:15 reviews, 81 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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