Brian Hogan
Head Of Documentation
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Hogan is a seasoned developer-educator and documentation leader with 18 years of experience building developer-facing teams, curriculum, and tooling. As Head of Documentation at Tailscale and former Director of Developer Education at Temporal, he combines hands-on software skills (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, backend contributions to projects like Phoenix) with a track record of scaling remote content teams and integrating LLMs into docs workflows. He’s the author or editor of more than a dozen technical books and hundreds of tutorials, and has taught thousands of learners across books, courses, and interactive content. Brian is adept at turning complex engineering concepts into practical, competency-based learning experiences and has shipped production tooling that powers book and tutorial publishing pipelines. Based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, he also mentors aspiring developers and maintains open-source contributions that improve developer ergonomics and accessibility.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Management Information Systems General, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Management Information Systems General at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Stackoverflow
3,033reputation
121kreached
35answers
1question
forms
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accessibility
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ruby-on-rails
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migration
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sass
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Github Skills (24)
elixir10
phoenix-liveview10
phoenix-framework10
html10
web-framework10
apache-phoenix10
accessibility9
migration9
apidoc9
forms9
sass9
api9
ruby-on-rails9
testing8
activerecord6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
phoenixframework/phoenix
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Peace of mind from prototype to production
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the Phoenix framework's HTML link helpers, introducing a new button helper to create navigation buttons. They implemented the button helper with supporting tests and updated documentation. Further modifications included cleaning up tests, renaming variables, and updating the HTML layout to use sectioning elements.
realtimepeacephoenix-frameworkelixirprototype
napcs/rubynew
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
rubynew-projectproject-generator
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