Karen Sawrey
Senior Technical Writer at Buildkite
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Top SchoolKaren Sawrey is a Senior Technical Writer with nine years of experience translating complex CI/CD, data security, and multimedia hardware/software concepts into clear, developer-focused documentation at Buildkite. She has progressed internally from DevOps Support Engineer to senior writer, pairing hands-on troubleshooting with documentation that actively unblocks engineers and improves product onboarding. A practiced public speaker on technical writing, AI, security, and diversity, she brings communication skills honed by co-founding Women Who Code Kyiv and leading community initiatives. Her open-source work on the buildkite/docs repo reflects a pragmatic focus on clarity, consistency, and usability across docs and screenshots. Based in Kyiv, she combines a formal background in communication and translation with real-world ops experience, which helps her bridge technical and non-technical audiences effectively. An unexpected advantage: her long-running volunteer role managing a 200K+ guitar hardware/software community shows she excels at scaling empathy and engagement as well as documentation.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), Communication and Media Studies, Master of Arts (MA), Communication and Media Studies at Harkivs'kij Nacional'nij Universitet im. V.N. Karazina
English, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Spanish
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Github contributions (5)
buildkite/docs
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
The source files for the Buildkite documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:282 reviews, 823 commits, 228 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Karen's contributions primarily focused on creating and expanding the Buildkite documentation. They added new content, revised existing information, and improved the formatting and structure of various documentation pages. The user also updated screenshots and fixed typos throughout the documentation, with a focus on consistency and clarity.
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karensawrey/bktesting-2
Dec 2021 - Aug 2024
Experimenting with Buildkite agent
Contributions:1 release, 25 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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