Karen Miller
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaren Miller is a senior technical writer and engineer with 10+ years of professional experience and a long career shaping developer-facing documentation and education for distributed systems. She has led documentation for major open-source projects like Apache Geode (serving as PMC Chair) and enterprise observability products at Grafana Labs, where she designed a Loki getting-started guide and prototyped content reuse across product lines. Her background as a CS educator and former hardware engineer gives her a rare combination of deep technical understanding, pedagogical skill, and attention to system-level detail. Karen is known for turning complex implementation and operational concepts into clear, example-driven docs and tutorials that reduce support costs and accelerate adoption.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (5)
documentation10
technical-writing10
security8
javas6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/geode
Sep 2017 - Feb 2021
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:38 reviews, 105 commits, 239 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Karen's contributions primarily involve updating and revising documentation within the Apache Geode project. They focused on clarifying documentation for various features including the `gfsh` commands, transaction implementation details, security aspects, and general API descriptions. The user also worked on incorporating code examples to aid understanding, adding new sections describing features like Micrometer and JNDI bindings, and addressing documentation inconsistencies across the different documentation sources.
accumuloapachenetwork-serverdatagridjava
Pivotal-Data-Attic/attic-project-geode-docs
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:179 pushes, 12 branches, 10 tags in 1 year 1 month
geode
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