Diane Olsen
Senior Technical Writer at Google
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDiane Olsen is a senior technical writer with eight years of focused experience creating developer-facing documentation at major cloud and consumer-tech companies, currently shaping docs at Google. She has a strong track record at Amazon and Microsoft writing and managing documentation for services like Amazon API Gateway, Cognito, Alexa Voice Service, and system-level Windows APIs, and has led cross-functional teams and documentation programs. Diane excels at deeply technical, deadline-driven content delivered via docs-as-code workflows, and she has helped establish career frameworks for highly technical writer roles. Her background spans computer engineering and linguistics, giving her a rare combination of technical rigor and clarity of explanation that helps engineering teams ship complex APIs and integrations.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering at Santa Clara UniversityHonors Co-op Program for Engineering Professionals, Linguistics, Honors Co-op Program for Engineering Professionals, Linguistics at Stanford University
Japanese, German, French
Github Skills (25)
amazon-api10
amazon-web-services10
mws10
amazon-api-gateway10
api10
aws10
gateway10
api-gateway10
serverless10
amazon10
user-guide5
aws-sdk4
alexa-skills-kit4
aws-cloudformation4
sdk4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/amazon-api-gateway-developer-guide
May 2018 - Aug 2019
The open source version of the Amazon API Gateway Developer Guide. To submit feedback or requests for changes, submit an issue or make changes and submit a pull request.
Contributions:20 commits, 19 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 2 months
api-gatewayapiserverlessamazonsubmit
alexa-samples/skill-sample-python-first-skill
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
This Alexa Skills Kit sample skill shows how to build a simple skill called Cake Time that counts down the number of days until the customer's birthday.
Contributions:2 comments, 4 issues in 1 day
alexa-skills-kituntilcountsalexaalexa-skills
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