Esther Kim
Senior Technical Writer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEsther Kim is a Senior Technical Writer at Datadog with 7 years of experience translating complex engineering concepts into clear, user-focused documentation. Combining a software engineering foundation with an MS in Library and Information Science and prior U.S. Coast Guard service, she blends technical fluency, archival rigor, and mission-driven communication to make information findable and actionable. Her background as a solutions engineer and developer gives her hands-on empathy for product and engineering workflows, while archival roles sharpened her metadata and information architecture skills. Known for adapting quickly under pressure, she excels at cross-functional collaboration and creating documentation that reduces support load and accelerates user onboarding. Based in New York, she brings a disciplined, service-oriented approach to documentation that prioritizes real user outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Software Engineering, Web Development Software Engineering at Flatiron SchoolMS Library and Information Science Archives concentration, MS Library and Information Science Archives concentration at Simmons University School of Library and Information ScienceBachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration and Management General at US Coast Guard Academy
Korean, English
Github Skills (103)
hugo10
parser10
faraday10
distributed-tracing10
drone-ci10
integrations10
terraform10
ruby10
dry-rb10
profiling10
ruby-client10
opentelemetry10
stream-processing10
data-pipeline10
operator10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
estherk15/haiku-builder
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
Vanilla JavaScript frontend, pulls from Datamuse API, with Semantic CSS.
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 10 months
vanillaapidatamusejavascript-frontendcss
estherk15/gr-backend
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
Ruby on Rails API backend for Good Reader, endpoints for users, lists and books.
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 10 months
ruby-on-railsapirails-api-backendrails-apiruby-on-rails-api
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