Joel Brandenburg
Lead Technical Writer at Scale Computing
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Brandenburg is a Lead Technical Writer with 11 years of experience crafting clear, user-focused documentation for APIs, developer guides, UI text, and end-user instructions across cloud and enterprise products. Based in Austin, he has held progressive roles at HP/HPE, AWS, Acumera, and Scale Computing, pairing deep product knowledge with hands-on authoring in Markdown and DITA and workflows using GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA, and Confluence. He specializes in turning complex cloud and infrastructure concepts into practical, searchable content and runbooks that reduce support escalations and accelerate onboarding. Known for blending customer-support experience with documentation leadership, he brings a pragmatic focus on usability and outcomes rather than just completeness. An uncommon strength is his background in international studies and Arabic, which informs a thoughtful, user-centric approach to communication across diverse audiences.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts, Peace Studies, Associate of Arts, Peace Studies at Richland Community CollegeBachelors of Arts and Science, International Studies; Arabic, Bachelors of Arts and Science, International Studies; Arabic at University of North Texas
Github Skills (37)
amazon-ecs10
command-line-interface10
amazon-ecr10
amazon-web-services10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
aws-cli10
amazon-eks9
typescript9
cloud-infrastructure9
docker-container9
amazon-ec29
cloud-development-kit8
infrastructure-as-code8
amazon7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/amazon-ecs-developer-guide
Mar 2018 - Sep 2020
The open source version of the Amazon ECS developer guide. You can submit feedback & requests for changes by submitting issues in this repo or by making proposed changes & submitting a pull request.
Contributions:74 commits, 120 PRs, 175 pushes in 2 years 6 months
amazon-ecs
hphelion/public.cloud.docs
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 38 branches in 1 month
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