Cheryl Simmons
Senior Manager, Technical Writing at Confluent
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolCheryl Simmons is a senior technical writing leader with 11+ years shaping developer and IT Pro experiences at companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Meta/Oculus, and Confluent. She combines content strategy and hands-on authoring to deliver clear, developer-focused documentation and has managed documentation teams through product and platform changes. Technically fluent — comfortable reading code in multiple languages and writing in C# — she leverages tooling like Git/GitHub, Jekyll, Sphinx and AWS Lambda to streamline doc workflows. Her open-source contributions include improving Apache Kafka docs, a high-impact repository for streaming systems, reflecting a focus on clarity in complex distributed systems. Known for partnering tightly with engineering, solution architects and developer marketing, she turns developer feedback and telemetry into measurable content improvements. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she blends product-side experience with a developer-centric mindset to make documentation a strategic asset.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computing and Software Systems Computer Science, BS Computing and Software Systems Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (6)
configuration-management10
kafka10
configurations10
configuration-file10
documentation10
scala9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Apache Kafka - A distributed event streaming platform
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 1 commit, 6 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Cheryl primarily contributed to the documentation within the Apache Kafka repository. Their work involved fixing formatting issues, correcting typos, and improving the clarity of configuration documentation. They modified files related to Kafka configuration and the Streams API, ensuring the documentation accurately reflects the project's functionality. These changes enhance the usability and understanding of the Kafka platform for developers.
apache-kafkascalakafkajavastreaming
cherylws/kafka
Jan 2023 - Dec 2025
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:29 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
apache-kafka
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