Jeff Bruemmer
Editor at Metabase
Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Bruemmer is an editor and senior technical writer with a decade of experience shaping product documentation and user-facing content for data and analytics platforms. Based in Vermont, he currently leads editorial efforts at Metabase, contributing not only to documentation strategy but also to UI component improvements in a widely used open-source BI tool. His background blends hands-on web development and product management—he co-led data tooling and cost-saving initiatives at Bird that supported real-time systems across 100+ cities. A former Michener Fellow and professional ghostwriter/editor, Jeff brings unusually strong storytelling and editorial rigor to technical communication, making complex APIs and dashboards approachable. He has a track record of building documentation ecosystems from the ground up—wikis, data catalogs, runbooks—and aligning them with engineering workflows.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor's degree, English Language and Literature/Letters at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Fine Arts (MFA), Creative Writing, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Creative Writing at The University of Texas at AustinFullstack Academy of Code
Github Skills (18)
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clojure10
api-documentation10
front-end-development10
documentation10
javascript9
react9
data-visualization8
business-intelligence8
data-visualisation8
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data-visualizations8
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analytics7
database6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 898 reviews, 296 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the documentation and UI components of the Metabase project. Their work involved updating API documentation format, modifying the format and content of the API documentation, and integrating the changes with the existing codebase. They also added and updated documentation for several features, including expressions, dashboards, and the API itself. Additionally, they made changes to the UI, such as the appearance and subscriptions.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
jeff-bruemmer/clerk
Nov 2020 - May 2022
A fast, customizable linter for prose.
Contributions:9 releases, 43 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 6 months
customizablelinterlintprose
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