Gordon Furbush
Contract Technical Writer at none
Belmont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGordon Furbush is a seasoned technical writer with over three decades of experience crafting user, administrator, and developer documentation for enterprise software, most recently as Lead Technical Writer at MarkLogic and now available for contract work. He excels at advocating for users by tailoring content to different learning curves and designing navigation that lets readers “drill up” for context or “drill down” for detail. A pragmatic automator, Gordon routinely generates API references from source code and writes PERL scripts to automate repetitive documentation tasks, and he’s comfortable reading and producing sample code across languages from C/C++ and Java to Python, XQuery, and SQL. He has led documentation migrations and publishing projects (AuthorIT → FrameMaker/WebWorks), implemented docs-as-first-tier support solutions, and served as content manager for customer-facing support sites. Based in Belmont, CA, he pairs deep tooling expertise (FrameMaker, Doxygen, Javadoc, WebWorks) with a background in both information architecture and developer-facing docs—an uncommon blend that helps bridge product, engineering, and support teams.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Sociology / Minor, Computer Science, BA, Sociology / Minor, Computer Science at San Francisco State UniversityTermanGunn
Github Skills (20)
marklogic9
react8
markdown8
xml6
xquery6
triplestore5
javascript4
json4
spring-batch4
gwt4
gradle4
java4
etl3
database-management3
database3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
marklogic-community/RunDMC
May 2017 - Jun 2019
MarkLogic application for running a developer site
Contributions:42 commits, 21 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 1 month
reactmarkdownmarklogic
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