Kay Kim
Education Docs
United States
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Top SchoolKay Kim is a seasoned documentation and education architect with 13 years of experience building developer-focused content and learning experiences for major database and cloud platforms. Currently leading Education/Docs at Materialize, Kay has directed documentation strategy and teams at MongoDB and served as the sole principal technical writer at Inrupt, where they designed hands-on courses and built example apps to validate and teach complex features. Their open-source contributions include substantial, example-rich work on the widely used mongodb/docs and mongodb/docs-ecosystem repositories, improving tutorials, multi-language snippets, and driver compatibility guidance. Kay pairs a deep technical background—rooted in decades of engineering and programming roles—with strong information architecture and docs tooling skills (Sphinx, ReST, javadoc/TypeDoc). Colleagues rely on Kay not just to write docs but to deploy and test systems (Kubernetes, Spring Boot, React/Node) to ensure accuracy and usable examples. This blend of hands-on engineering, education design, and leadership makes Kay adept at turning complex platform features into teachable, production-ready guidance.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Cornell UniversityThe University of MelbourneMLA, MLA at University of Chicago
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
markdown10
restructuredtext10
sphinx10
technical-writing10
rs10
markdown-it10
mongodb10
documentation10
mongoose9
datetime9
aggregation-framework9
api-documentation8
pymongo6
ruby-on-rails6
geo6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/docs
Sep 2012 - Jun 2020
The MongoDB Documentation Project Source.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6795 commits, 1471 PRs, 6648 pushes in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kay primarily focused on improving and updating the MongoDB documentation project. Their contributions involved refining existing documentation, adding examples, clarifying concepts, and updating various pages to align with the latest version of the product. The user made substantial changes to the example pages, including the addition of code snippets across multiple programming languages and also restructured several existing tutorials.
mongodbproject-documentation
mongodb/docs-ecosystem
Jan 2013 - Feb 2019
MongoDB Ecosystem Documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:178 commits, 153 PRs, 257 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kay primarily focused on updating and maintaining documentation for the MongoDB Ecosystem. Their contributions include modifying the structure and content of various documentation files, such as driver compatibility tables, and adding links to getting started guides. The changes also involve incorporating new features, updating API links, and refining the overall presentation and style of the documentation. These updates enhance the readability, accuracy, and completeness of the documentation for users of the MongoDB ecosystem.
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