Ian Evans
Staff Technical Writer at Cockroach Labs
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Evans is a Staff Technical Writer with over 11 years of hands-on experience crafting developer-facing documentation and CI/CD workflows for distributed databases and cloud platforms. Based in Walnut Creek, CA, he currently shapes CockroachDB documentation—contributing Python tutorials, API guides, and CI integrations that reflect a deep understanding of backend and DevOps concerns for a well-known open-source database. His prior roles at DataStax and Oracle highlight a long track record of translating complex database and enterprise features into clear, consumable guidance for engineers. Known for pragmatic refactors (including removing misleading Free Tier references) and bridging engineering and docs, he brings both editorial rigor and platform-savvy systems thinking to developer enablement.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (7)
cockroachdb10
cicd10
documentation10
python9
api8
apidoc8
fest6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/docs
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB user documentation
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:745 reviews, 184 commits, 418 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the documentation of CockroachDB, focusing on Python tutorials and example code. They refactored code to remove references to features related to CockroachDB Cloud's Free Tier, implying a good understanding of the platform's architecture. Additionally, the user worked on setting up and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline, and integrating additional documentation on API features.
user-documentationcockroachdbdatabasearangodb
cockroachlabs/example-app-java-jdbc
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
'Hello World' example application in Java using the JDBC library
Contributions:4 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
javajdbcdatabase
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