Jesse Seldess
Documentation Lead
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Seldess is a documentation leader with 10+ years shaping developer-facing content and education for distributed systems and databases, currently leading documentation at Braintrust. He has spearheaded major docs overhauls at Pinecone—adding multi-language SDK examples, versioned API references, and tooling migrations—and built the original open-source CockroachDB docs and training programs that scaled developer adoption. Jesse combines editorial craft (MFA in Creative Writing) with technical rigor, routinely regenerating SQL diagrams and refining complex reference material to match product releases. He’s equally experienced growing and coaching teams, instituting style guides and contribution workflows, and bringing product-led metrics and AI-assessment of docs into planning. Notably, his hands-on GitHub work includes technical writing contributions to Pinecone examples and CockroachDB docs, improving clarity and usability for real-world users.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaB.A. English, B.A. English at University of Iowa
German, English
Github Skills (6)
markdown10
jupyter-notebook10
markdown-it10
sql10
documentation10
technical-writing10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/docs
Dec 2015 - Feb 2022
CockroachDB user documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:271 reviews, 1419 commits, 3172 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jesse's commits focused on regenerating SQL diagrams and updating the structure of diagrams. This involved modifications to diagrams of the `ALTER TABLE` commands, particularly concerning the `COLUMN` and `PARTITION BY` clauses, which suggests work in improving or updating documentation for SQL grammar and commands. These updates appear to align with specific versions of the documentation (2.0, 2.1), indicating a responsibility for maintaining up-to-date documentation across releases.
user-documentationcockroachdbdatabasearangodb
pinecone-io/examples
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Jupyter Notebooks to help you get hands-on with Pinecone vector databases
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:11 reviews, 36 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse's commits primarily focus on improving and updating the documentation within the `pinecone-io/examples` repository. Their work includes fixing broken links, adding supplementary documentation to the quickstart guide, and refining explanations. The user appears focused on enhancing the clarity, usability, and completeness of the available documentation.
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