Kati Paizee
Staff Technical Writer at GitLab
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolKati Paizee is a Staff Technical Writer with 11 years of experience crafting and maintaining user-facing documentation for complex cloud networking and compute services, including Amazon EC2, VPC, and AWS Direct Connect. She has a strong track record at AWS and GitLab, progressing from hands-on technical writing to management and back to a senior individual contributor role, demonstrating both leadership and deep subject-matter expertise. Her contributions to the widely used aws-cli repository show a practical focus on real-world examples that help operators and developers adopt features correctly. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, she blends technical accuracy with clear instructional design, shaped by earlier experience authoring educational materials. Trained in law and commerce at the University of Cape Town, she brings analytical rigor and attention to governance and clarity to documentation for distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
St Cyprians High SchoolLLB, LLB at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (7)
ec10
amazon-ec210
aws10
aws-cli10
documentation10
ssm8
cloud-computing6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cli
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 2 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kati's commits primarily focus on adding and modifying documentation examples within the AWS CLI repository. They've updated existing examples for various EC2, SSM, Direct Connect, and other AWS services, including endpoints, flow logs, and bundle tasks. These updates showcase how to use different CLI commands and incorporate new functionalities. The user's contributions primarily involve updating existing documentation and adding new examples to demonstrate various AWS CLI commands and their corresponding outputs.
aws-clicommand-line-interfaceamazonweb-servicescloud
awsdocs/amazon-vpc-network-administrator-guide
Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
The open source version of the Amazon VPC network administrator docs. You can submit feedback and requests for changes by submitting issues in this repo or by making proposed changes and submitting a pull request.
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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