Jorie Helwig
Studio Manager at Fine Art Starts
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJorie Helwig is an experienced developer and technical writer with 11 years building and documenting developer-facing software and automation tooling. She has contributed to high-profile open source projects such as Puppet—improving function docs and references—and helped maintain Datadog’s documentation, showing strong attention to clarity and accessibility (including alt text and build fixes). Jorie blends hands-on engineering experience with studio management and teaching roles, reflecting an unusual mix of technical, creative, and instructional skills. Comfortable working remotely, she has a track record of improving developer experience through precise docs and pragmatic code-adjacent contributions. Based in Texas but with roles across Oregon and Wisconsin, she brings a cross-disciplinary perspective grounded in web design, photography, and software. Colleagues know her as a "professional nerd" who turns complex technical detail into usable, polished material.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Applied Science Web Design & Interactive Media, Associates of Applied Science Web Design & Interactive Media at The Art Institutes International Minnesota
Github Skills (6)
hugo10
documentation10
markdown-it9
markdown9
configuration-management9
yaml7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/documentation
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1113 reviews, 1110 commits, 789 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jorie contributed to the Datadog documentation repository by primarily adding alt text to site help buttons. They also merged branches, indicating they were involved in integrating other contributions. Additionally, the user fixed a typo in a build failure error message and made adjustments to the documentation.
datadoghugowiki
puppetlabs/puppet
Jul 2015 - Mar 2020
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:122 commits, 143 PRs, 76 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jorie primarily focused on updating and correcting documentation within the Puppet repository. Their contributions involved fixing outdated links, updating function descriptions for `scanf`, `slice`, and `membership` parameters, and correcting wording in the `defaults.rb` file. They also added notes to the `epp` function about loading files with absolute paths and corrected wording in the yumrepo reference.
automation-framework
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