Brian Immel
Staff Technical Writer at Salesforce
Pleasanton, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Immel is a Technical Writing Lead with 11 years of experience crafting developer- and product-facing documentation for major tech companies, currently leading docs efforts at Salesforce from Pleasanton, CA. He has a strong track record at scale—shaping IVI and Alexa-integrated developer content at Amazon, improving Unreal Engine documentation at Epic Games, and modernizing doc processes and automation at Meta. Brian blends hands-on engineering skills (Node.js, Bash, Confluence API automation) with UX-driven content strategy, having reduced publication times and migrated thousands of documents. He mentors and hires technical writers, runs docathons, and builds tooling that reduces on-call burden and improves contributor workflows. Comfortable in fast-paced product launches, he pairs creative training and animation background with rigorous API and platform documentation practices.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Computer Animation/Art, MFA, Computer Animation/Art at Savannah College of Art and DesignGraphic Design, Graphic Design at Indiana University Purdue University at Fort WayneCS, CS at Northern Virginia Community CollegeBFA, Art, BFA, Art at Ball State University
Github Skills (68)
touchid10
facebook-sdk10
mobile-development10
npm-package10
mapkit10
google-map10
google-maps10
javascript10
facebook-graph-api10
coremotion10
apple-maps10
android-apps10
appcelerator-titanium10
mvc-framework10
titanium10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
appcelerator/doctools
Dec 2015 - Sep 2019
Tools and scripts to build the Appcelerator Docs site. This is intended to the be "source of truth" for the contents published to docs.appcelerator.com
Contributions:456 commits, 44 PRs, 297 pushes in 3 years 9 months
appcelerator
jawa9000/jawa9000.github.io
May 2016 - Jun 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 299 pushes, 5 branches in 10 years 2 months
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