Chris Ward
Documentation Team Lead
Germany
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Top SchoolChris Ward is a Documentation Team Lead at Supabase with over a decade of experience transitioning from developer to specialist in technical writing, education, and content strategy. He combines hands-on engineering chops—contributing full-stack code and refactored quickstarts for projects like Slint and Raycast—with a knack for turning complex systems into clear, SEO-friendly docs and tutorials. Chris has written for high-traffic sites and startups with international recognition, presented globally, and led documentation upgrades (Hugo, versioning, quickstarts) for large projects such as M3. A prolific podcaster, video maker and journalist, he brings an editorial mindset to developer experience and community building. Based in Germany, he’s known for blending practical DevOps and developer experience improvements with engaging storytelling that helps teams and users adopt complex tooling faster.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation in Computing Computer Science, Foundation in Computing Computer Science at Middlesex UniversityMultimedia Computing Bsc MultimediaComputingProgrammingScience Human Computer InteractionDesignSecurity, Multimedia Computing Bsc MultimediaComputingProgrammingScience Human Computer InteractionDesignSecurity at University of Westminster
French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
rust-lang10
hugo10
javascript10
buildkite10
apidoc10
trello-api10
raycast10
typescript10
user-interface10
ui-design10
cicd10
toolkits10
api10
raycasting10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
m3db/m3
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:145 reviews, 145 commits, 129 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the documentation and build processes within the M3 repository. Their contributions include removing unused parameters from buildkite scripts, upgrading documentation to Hugo, and revamping the quickstart guide. They also addressed SEO issues, fixed broken images and links, and added versioning to the documentation.
distributedquerymonorepoquery-enginesidecar
slint-ui/slint
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 14 PRs, 65 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to refactoring and updating the Slint quickstart tutorials across multiple languages (Rust, JavaScript, and C++). Their work involved integrating these tutorials with project templates, renaming tutorial sections, and consolidating language-specific content. The commits also included updates to the documentation, reflecting the changes to the quickstart structure and language concepts.
cppdesktop-applicationsrustjavascriptfluid
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