Christopher Verner
Principal Technical Writer, Lead at Akamai Technologies
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Verner is a Principal Technical Writer and team lead in San Diego with over two decades of technical writing experience and seven years in senior roles at Akamai focused on web and media delivery products. He specializes in documentation generation and management across Markdown, DITA, HTML, and API-first formats (OpenAPI/Swagger, RAML, YAML, JSON Schema), maintaining docs for more than ten complex products and leading a 10-writer team. His background includes managing global documentation teams and localization for enterprise backup/recovery suites and hands-on hardware service manuals, giving him a rare mix of product, process, and standards expertise. Known for turning API and media-delivery complexity into clear, automated documentation workflows, he blends editorial craft with tooling and schema-driven automation to scale docs across platforms.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (3)
linode10
api10
akamai2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Vernholio/docs
Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
Linode guides and tutorials.
Contributions:40 pushes, 15 branches in 5 months
Vernholio/linode-api-docs
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:53 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 1 month
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