Dave Wrede
Documentation Engineering Manager
Marysville, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Wrede is a documentation engineering leader with 11+ years translating complex cloud and developer tooling into clear, usable content across companies like Meta, Snowflake, Google, and Pulumi. He builds and manages high-performing docs and training teams, bridging product, engineering, and UX to improve developer onboarding and search-driven discovery. His hands-on contributions to the popular pulumi/docs repo show a pragmatic mix of front-end tweaks, search integration, and streamlined tutorials that boost real user task completion. Based in Marysville, WA, he combines a B.S. in Technical Communications with deep corporate experience from Microsoft to modern cloud platforms. Colleagues describe him as perpetually curious and focused on elevating others through documentation and learning programs. He’s equally comfortable shaping documentation strategy at scale and diving into code snippets and UI details to make technical content smarter and more findable.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Technical Communications, B.S. Technical Communications at University of Washington
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Github Skills (4)
documentation10
front-end-development9
scim7
google-cloud7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/docs
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
All things Pulumi docs!
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:137 reviews, 13 commits, 45 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the documentation of the Pulumi platform. Their commits focused on updating and streamlining documentation, including the Google Cloud getting started tutorial, SCIM integration topic and the overall search experience using Swiftype. Additionally, they modified code snippets and UI elements to improve clarity and consistency, focusing on front-end changes and search integration. They also denoted blog entries in search results.
pulumi
davidwrede/davidwrede.github.io
Nov 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:10 PRs, 15 pushes, 11 branches in 7 years 5 months
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