David Karlsson
Staff Technical Writer at Docker, Inc
Kil, Värmland County, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarDavid Karlsson is a Staff Technical Writer with eight years of experience shaping developer-facing documentation and information architecture for cloud and telecom platforms. Based in Kil, Sweden, he has held progressive roles at Docker—contributing front-end improvements and accessibility updates to Docker's widely used docs repo and refining CLI docs and build tooling—and earlier crafted DITA/CCMS solutions and technical illustrations across automotive and industrial clients. He blends a writer’s clarity with hands-on engineering sensibilities, improving UX through code copy features, styling refinements, and build-process fixes. Known for translating complex systems into accessible flows, he also brings practical experience in information architecture from Ericsson and Semcon. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product, engineering, and content teams while keeping developer experience front and center.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Swedish, English, Hungarian
Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
javascript10
docker10
tailwindcss10
dockers10
build-automation10
documentation10
cli10
cicd9
go9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
bash7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
docker/docs
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Source repo for Docker's Documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2567 reviews, 143 commits, 2362 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the front-end documentation, implementing features and updating the styling for the landing page. They added new product entries to the landing page and incorporated a code copy feature to improve the user experience. The user also focused on accessibility, including and updating various visual aspects to make them match the established design system.
docker
docker/cli
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
The Docker CLI
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:181 reviews, 5 commits, 95 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the documentation and build processes within the Docker CLI repository. They updated documentation, including references and descriptions for various flags, and made modifications to the build scripts and tools for generating documentation. Furthermore, the user made changes to the build process, updated dependencies, and addressed issues related to build cache warnings.
dockerdocker-clicli
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