Jake Cahill
Lead Documentation Engineer
Surrey Heath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJake Cahill is a Lead Documentation Engineer with seven years of experience turning complex distributed systems into clear, usable documentation for developer audiences. Currently leading docs at Redpanda Data after progressing through technical-writing and leadership roles at Hazelcast and the IOTA Foundation, he blends hands-on tooling skills (JavaScript, Markdown, AsciiDoc) with translation and localization know-how from an applied languages background. Jake is known for simplifying complexity—both in prose and docs pipelines—while shaping documentation strategy across fast-moving data and cloud-native teams. Based in Surrey Heath, UK, he brings a translator’s precision to technical content, which helps him bridge engineering and internationalisation needs that are often overlooked in developer docs.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied languages, Bachelor's degree Applied languages at University of Portsmouth
English, French, Spanish, Arabic
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Github Skills (200)
data-stream10
realtime10
go-api10
hazelcast-cloud10
zookeeper10
dm10
message-queue10
distributed-computing10
cryptocurrency10
redpanda10
real-time-data10
seastar10
masking10
time-travel10
stream-processing10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
hazelcast/hazelcast-docs
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Hazelcast documentation playbook
Contributions:18 reviews, 641 commits, 380 PRs in 2 years
hazelcastplaybook
hazelcast/hazelcast-cloud-code-samples
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Hazelcast Cloud Code Samples
Contributions:22 reviews, 10 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 months
cloudhazelcast-cloudhazelcast
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