Elena Shebunyaeva
Lead Technical Writer at Mail.Ru Group
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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Top SchoolElena Shebunyaeva is a Lead Technical Writer based in Moscow with 10 years of professional experience and a long track record of scaling documentation teams and processes at major organizations like Mail.Ru Group and Kaspersky Lab. She specializes in developer-facing and enterprise documentation, contributing substantial improvements to the Tarantool open-source database docs—adding upgrade guides, systemd guidance, and cleanup of code snippets and links. Her background includes establishing documentation frameworks for financial software at Deutsche Bank and managing teams and multi-format publishing at Allied Testing. Educated in technical writing at UC Berkeley and trained as an economist with multilingual skills, she brings both linguistic precision and structured documentation methodologies to complex technical domains. Known for turning dense technical concepts into clear, actionable content, she bridges engineering and end users while driving documentation quality at scale. A practical detail that sets her apart: she pairs hands-on editing of open-source docs with institutional governance of internal writing standards.
10 years of coding experience
Technical Writing, Technical Writing at University of California, BerkeleyEconomist (with knowledge of English, German, and French), World Economics, Economist (with knowledge of English, German, and French), World Economics at Moscow State Linguistic University
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Github contributions (5)
tarantool/tarantool
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
Get your data in RAM. Get compute close to data. Enjoy the performance.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:119 reviews, 43 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Elena's contributions primarily involve updating and improving the documentation for the Tarantool database. They revised and expanded the documentation, including adding sections on systemd users, upgrading procedures, and documentation guidelines. They also addressed formatting issues, corrected code snippets, updated links, and generally enhanced the overall clarity and accuracy of the documentation.
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tarantool/examples
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 16 PRs, 29 pushes in 4 months
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