Ilona Koren-deutsch
Software Engineer at Privacera
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIlona Koren-deutsch is a software engineer and Technical Documentation Manager on Twitch's Developer Relations team, specializing in making developer docs crystal clear, actionable, and inclusive. With 20+ years driving high standards in technical documentation and roughly eight years in engineering-focused roles, she blends support engineering and UX design experience to translate complex APIs into practical guidance. A University of Pennsylvania alumna with advanced study across several institutions, she combines academic breadth with hands-on product and community-facing work in San Francisco. A popular speaker and mentor, Ilona leads API Days’ "4 Steps to Speaking" program and supports women in tech as Communications Lead for the TechWomen Alumnae Council. She’s known for enabling cross-discipline teams to be more effective through empathetic documentation practices that prioritize clarity and accessibility. Beyond docs, Ilona’s volunteer and speaking initiatives reveal a commitment to growing the next generation of technologists and amplifying underrepresented voices in developer communities.
8 years of coding experience
MA, MA at Indiana University BloomingtonMA, Certificate, MA, Certificate at Northwestern UniversityBA, BA at University of PennsylvaniaCertificate, Certificate at General AssemblyCity College of San FranciscoKing's College London
American Sign Language, Spanish, Italian, French, English
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Github Skills (10)
sphinx-doc9
sphinx9
documentation8
python4
api2
oas1
redoc1
swagger1
openapi1
insomnia1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cycene/lone-writers-guide
May 2018 - Feb 2019
The Lone Writer's Guide is the product of SF's ongoing hackathons. Find out more on our meetup page: https://goo.gl/A6EBEn
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes, 7 branches in 9 months
2d-gameazerothcoreongoingsfmlgoo
cycene/www
Jan 2019 - May 2019
The main website for Write the Docs.
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 months
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