Joseph Fajen
Technical Writer at Input Output
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoseph Fajen is a senior technical writer based in Portland, Oregon, with over 20 years of experience turning complex engineering knowledge into clear, user-focused documentation. He has led documentation strategy and site consolidation projects—most recently building a unified Docusaurus-based docs site for Marlowe at IOHK—while collaborating directly with developers to author APIs, tutorials, and developer guides. His background spans embedded systems, video signal processing, enterprise software, and blockchain tooling, including substantive documentation work on the Plutus smart-contract language and examples for Plutus V2. Known for inventing reusable templates and information architectures, he blends hands-on authoring (Markdown, Git) with governance of multi-repo content. A BA in Philosophy and History informs his knack for structuring argument and clarifying trade-offs for technical audiences.
3 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
rs10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
blockchain9
programming-language9
smart-contracts9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
IntersectMBO/plutus
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The Plutus language implementation and tools
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:80 reviews, 31 commits, 49 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the Plutus project. The commits demonstrate significant work on the project's user guide, including restructuring the content, adding new tutorials, and integrating content about language versions and smart contract examples. The user also made edits to improve clarity and add links to relevant resources, such as specifications and examples of Plutus V2 functionalities.
programming-languageblockchainsmart-contractsplutus
marlowe-lang/marlowe-doc
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
Documentation of the Marlowe language and ecosystem
Contributions:53 reviews, 37 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 months
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