Jodie Putrino is a Senior Manager of Technical Writing at F5, bringing 11 years of experience building and leading globally distributed documentation teams that support the full F5 product line. A fierce advocate for product docs and their creators, she combines a human-first management style with practical engineering collaboration to turn complex technical content into usable knowledge. Her hands-on open-source contributions to high-profile repos like nginx/kubernetes-ingress and F5's Kubernetes and Python SDK projects show she regularly improves docs, build processes, and onboarding materials for developer-facing projects. Known for empathy and a sharp sense of humor, she scales documentation quality through process, tooling, and cross-team partnership. Based in Denver with a bachelor’s in writing from Ithaca College, she brings editorial rigor to developer docs and an ability to translate marketing and engineering needs into clear, maintainable documentation.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Writing, Bachelor's Degree, Writing at Ithaca College
Repository for F5 Container Ingress Services for Kubernetes & OpenShift.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:77 commits, 30 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jodie's commits primarily focused on documenting the F5 Kubernetes BIG-IP Controller project. The contributions involved renaming directories, refactoring the README, and creating a comprehensive documentation framework. The user updated and expanded existing documentation, added content, and addressed reviewer comments to improve clarity. The work also included the implementation of download links for documentation files and the incorporation of the F5 theme.
NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:189 reviews, 17 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jodie's primary contributions involve updating and improving the project's documentation. They added text requested by marketing to the KIC docs landing page, fixed issues with raw HTML code tags, and updated the documentation to use a specific Hugo theme. Furthermore, the user upgraded the nginx-hugo-theme module and made changes to the documentation configuration, including instructions and the Makefile, likely supporting build processes.
golangnginxcontrollersingress-controllerdocker
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Jodie Putrino - Senior Manager, Technical Writing at F5