Jeffrey Aftel
Team Lead - Technical Writing at Silverfort
Israel
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Top SchoolJeffrey Aftel is a seasoned content and documentation leader with 11 years of focused experience building and scaling technical writing teams at companies like HP, Wix, Gong, and now Silverfort. He specializes in transforming documentation into a strategic function—cultivating high-performing, risk-tolerant teams that balance independent ownership with collaborative practices. Jeffrey has led API and product writing initiatives, driven docs-driven product onboarding, and integrated documentation into platform and developer workflows. His background spans enterprise software, developer platforms, and user-facing portals, with hands-on experience in tooling migrations (FrameMaker to MadCap Flare) and embedded user assistance. An unusual combination of technical training (BS in Computer Science) and rabbinic/education leadership gives him a distinctive coaching and organizational-development approach to content. Based in Israel, he is known for turning troubled teams into engaged groups that deliver measurable business value.
11 years of coding experience
M.S Jewish Education, M.S Jewish Education at Azrieli Graduate SchoolCertificate of Completion Technical Writing, Certificate of Completion Technical Writing at WritePointOrdination Rabbinics, Ordination Rabbinics at Yeshiva University
english - mother tongue, Hebrew
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Github Skills (16)
corvid10
wix10
writers9
adapter9
markdown7
asciidoc7
atom-plugin6
rdbms6
database5
mysql5
mermaid3
mariadb3
sample-data3
firebase3
firestore2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jeffreya/Markdown-Templates
Nov 2014 - Dec 2020
MD template files to provide information for new APIs to technical writers.
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 6 years 1 month
writersasciidocmarkdown
wix-incubator/corvid-external-db-mysql-adapter
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
Corvid by Wix Example: External Database Collection Adapter
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 2 months
wixrdbmsmysqlexternal-databaseadapter
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