Brett Blue
Staff Technical Writer at Datadog
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Blue is a Staff Technical Writer at Datadog who turns complex engineering concepts into crisp, developer-focused documentation and scalable docs systems. With a BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a steady progression from technical writer roles to senior and staff positions, he blends technical fluency with communication craft. He has focused experience across observability and enterprise software, having driven documentation at Datadog and Appian after a multi-year tenure at Fast Enterprises. Brett is known for designing user-centric docs that improve developer onboarding and reduce support load, not just writing guides. Based in Denver, he quietly pairs hands-on technical understanding with systems thinking to optimize documentation workflows and developer experience.
2 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (83)
hugo10
parser10
faraday10
distributed-tracing10
drone-ci10
integrations10
terraform10
ruby10
security10
dry-rb10
profiling10
ruby-client10
opentelemetry10
stream-processing10
ansible-galaxy10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/go-sample-app
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
A sample application composed of several services, written in Go.
Contributions:6 reviews, 11 comments in 11 days
DataDog/datadog-vale
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024
Documentation Style Guide for the Vale Linter. Owned and maintained by the Datadog Docs team.
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 2 months
style-guidelinterlintlintingvale
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