Leah Karasek
Senior Technical Writer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLeah Karasek is a Senior Technical Writer and former software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing documentation at major tech companies. She combines hands-on engineering experience from Amazon and internships with a focused technical writing practice at Twitter and Google, specializing in cloud and developer tooling documentation. Leah has a proven track record improving developer experience—she helped migrate 100k build targets, overhauled onboarding guides for monorepos, and wrote Cloud TPU docs at Google. Trained in computer science (CWRU) and professional technical writing (University of Washington), she blends rigorous engineering instincts with clear information architecture. A lifelong learner who codes as well as crafts docs, she’s known for teaching technical writing to engineers and creating templates and guidelines that scale cross-team authorship. Based in Seattle, she brings a pragmatic, product-minded approach to making complex systems approachable for developers.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Professional Technical Writing, Certificate in Professional Technical Writing at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityTallmadge High School
German, English
Github Skills (6)
cabal1
shiny1
javascript1
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identitymodel1
oidc-client1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
helloleah/eecs395-mobile
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
helloleah/slate
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Beautiful static documentation for your API
Contributions:19 pushes in 2 days
apiopenapimarkdown
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