Erin Cochran
Senior Technical Writer at Omni
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErin Cochran is a senior technical writer with nearly a decade building docs-as-code ecosystems for SaaS and developer products, currently leading documentation at Omni. She has a proven track record creating developer portals and end-to-end documentation workflows, launching learning platforms like Dagster University, and instrumenting SQL-backed dashboards to measure docs health and user outcomes. Erin blends hands-on writing with program management—mentoring teams, automating changelogs, and running community-driven documentation processes that shorten release cycles. An active contributor to the popular Dagster open-source project, she focuses on developer guides, API references, and restructuring docs to scale with product growth. Based in Philadelphia, she’s also an artist and runner, bringing a curious, user-centered approach to complex technical content.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Professional Writing/English, Bachelor of Arts Professional Writing/English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (10)
mdx10
api-documentation10
documentation10
python5
orchestra4
orchestration4
analytics4
data-engineering4
data-pipeline4
data-pipelines4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dagster-io/dagster
May 2022 - Jan 2023
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1850 reviews, 223 commits, 662 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Erin primarily contributed to the documentation of the `dagster-io/dagster` repository, focusing on creating and updating guides and API references. Their commits involved documenting new features such as asset metadata, asset checks, and various other concepts, while also updating existing documentation pages. The user also played a role in restructuring the documentation, including migrating pages and creating new landing pages and guides.
operationpythonobservationschedulermetadata
stitchdata/docs
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
Repo for the Stitch Docs
Contributions:113 reviews, 1607 commits, 863 PRs in 3 years 10 months
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