Kira Furuichi
Product Engineer at datafold
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKira Furuichi is a Product Engineer with a decade of experience blending product marketing and engineering, currently based in Los Angeles. She brings a practical mix of technical writing and product-focused development, having contributed to the documentation and UX structure of well-known open-source projects like dbt's docs.getdbt.com. Kira's background includes a Computer Science degree from Northwestern and further studies at the National University of Singapore, reflecting a global engineering perspective. She excels at translating complex technical concepts into clear guidance for users and teams, informed by hands-on involvement in site configuration and styling improvements. Comfortable at the intersection of product, docs, and engineering, she helps teams ship polished, discoverable features. An under-the-radar strength is her knack for reorganizing documentation structure to improve findability and onboarding for new users.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityNational University of Singapore
Japanese, English
Github Skills (7)
markdown10
content-management-system10
markdown-it10
content-management10
documentation10
css7
javascript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The code behind docs.getdbt.com
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:602 reviews, 162 commits, 63 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kira primarily contributed to the documentation of the dbt project. Their commits involve significant modifications to `sidebars.js`, indicating changes in the structure and organization of the documentation, including renaming glossary sections and adding new guides. They also updated the `docusaurus.config.js` and CSS files, suggesting improvements in the presentation and styling of the documentation website.
code-behind
KiraFuruichi/kirafuruichi.github.io
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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