Elliot Yamaguchi
Technical Writer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElliot Yamaguchi is a seasoned technical writer with 10 years of experience shaping documentation for major cloud and enterprise products, currently authoring content at Google after prior roles at AWS and IBM. He specializes in practical, user-centered guides—console help, API references, and best practices—that reduce friction for customers and consistently improve documentation ratings and usability. At AWS he led initiatives that automated reference stubs and rewrote high-traffic pages to boost satisfaction, and he routinely partners with product, UX, and engineering teams to surface real customer pain points. Trained in technical communication with a background in polymer engineering, Elliot combines analytical rigor with clear, empathetic writing to make complex systems approachable. Living in Seattle, he enjoys testing new features hands-on to ensure documentation reflects real usage, not just specs.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Technical Communication, Master of Science, Technical Communication at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science, Polymer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Polymer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (11)
infrastructure-as-code10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
amazon-web-services10
aws-sdk8
sdk7
programming-language4
go4
golang4
aws-services2
concurrency1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
elliotyam/aws-go-wordfreq-sample
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
golangmicro-serviceconcurrencyaws-sdksdk
aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
A collection of useful CloudFormation templates
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 29 pushes in 4 months
aws-cloudformationamazon-web-servicescloudformation-templatesawsinfrastructure-as-code
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