Bob Grabar
Contract Technical Writer at NECS, Inc. (Software for Food Distributors)
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolBob Grabar is a seasoned contract technical writer with 11 years of focused experience documenting APIs, platform services, and enterprise software for developer and nontechnical audiences. He built documentation programs from the ground up—most notably PB Ecommerce API—and championed docs-as-code workflows using Git, Sphinx, and automated pipelines to shorten release cycles and improve developer readiness. At MongoDB he led docs for cluster-management products and produced the first Atlas documentation, validating features by compiling and running code and filing product bugs. His background spans large enterprises and startups, plus early-career journalism, which gives him a knack for clear, audience-driven narratives and rapid turnaround under tight deadlines. Based in New Haven, he pairs technical fluency (Bash, Java, REST API validation) with institutional experience creating firsts—DITA/XML initiatives, single-sourced knowledge bases, and context-sensitive help—that drive long-term documentation reuse.
11 years of coding experience
Southern Connecticut State UniversityBA, Geography, BA, Geography at University of ConnecticutUniversity of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (13)
api-platform10
mongodb10
postman9
geo6
mongodb-indexes6
indexing6
geojson6
schema6
spring6
python1
api1
java1
python-requests1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bgrabar/bash-scripts
Jan 2015 - Nov 2025
Contributions:245 pushes, 2 branches in 11 years
bgrabar/cockroachdb-docs
May 2019 - Jun 2021
CockroachDB user documentation
Contributions:22 pushes, 34 branches in 2 years 1 month
databasecockroachdbuser-documentation
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