Bob Furu

Technical Lead, Technical Writer at Google

Austin, Texas, United States
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Bob Furu is a Technical Lead and Technical Writer with seven years of focused experience crafting developer-facing security and networking documentation for Google Cloud and an extensive history building and scaling docs programs at Red Hat. He combines docs-as-code fluency, CI/CD and localization orchestration, and hands-on publishing chops—having driven 400+ merged doc PRs for OpenShift and maintained release cadence across major GA milestones. A program builder and trainer, he launched onboarding cohorts and Git training that measurably reduced merge conflicts and escalations, showing a knack for operationalizing documentation practices. Based in Austin, he’s an early adopter of agentic AI for docs and balances strategic program leadership with tactical contributions to high-profile open-source documentation like openshift-docs.
code7 years of coding experience
bookMaster of Arts - English Technical Communication, Master of Arts - English Technical Communication at Minnesota State University, Mankato
bookB.A. English Literature and Philosophy (Major) Religious Studies (Minor), B.A. English Literature and Philosophy (Major) Religious Studies (Minor) at Montana State University-Bozeman
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Github Skills (3)

documentation10
openshift10
html9

Programming languages (8)

TypeScriptHCLShellJavaScriptGoHTMLJupyter NotebookEJS

Github contributions (5)

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openshift/openshift-docs

Jul 2019 - Oct 2022

OpenShift 3 and 4 product and community documentation
Role in this project:
userTechnical Writer
Contributions:1349 reviews, 1936 commits, 1679 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to the OpenShift documentation by updating copyright years and adjusting the version dropdown. They also made modifications related to the 4.10 GA release, likely to reflect the latest version. In addition, the user removed a "work in progress" banner from a page. Their work focuses on maintaining and improving the accuracy and currency of the documentation.
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bobfuru/openshift-docs

Jul 2019 - Nov 2023

OpenShift Documentation
Contributions:2646 pushes, 878 branches in 4 years 4 months
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Bob Furu - Technical Lead, Technical Writer at Google