Lorina Poland
Retired Technical Writer at Self-employed
Greater Sacramento United States
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Top SchoolLorina Poland is a seasoned technical writer and engineering documentation lead with 11 years of experience translating complex distributed-database concepts into clear, tested developer and administrator guidance. As DataStax’s Lead Technical Writer and recent Apache Cassandra committer, she led the migration of Cassandra docs from Sphinx/reStructuredText to Asciidoc/Antora and architected multi-repo SSG builds, CI/CD-tested code examples, and public Docker compositions. Her domain expertise spans Cassandra, DSE, Stargate, Graph, and Astra services, including authoring OpenAPI specs and maintaining API Postman collections. A former Air Force Lt. Colonel and educator, she pairs disciplined systems thinking with hands-on tooling skills (DITA, OxygenXML, GitHub, AsciiDoc) and a knack for turning Java unit tests into usable CQL and Gremlin examples. Now retired but still active as an Apache Cassandra documentation committer, she continues to contribute to open-source documentation infrastructure and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Electrical Engineering, M.S. Electrical Engineering at University of California, DavisB.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering at The University of New MexicoUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
runner10
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cql10
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cassandra10
apache10
java10
osgi10
gateway10
stargate10
data-gateway10
sling10
github-actions-runner9
cqlsh9
grpc9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
polandll/llp-graph-examples
Oct 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:752 commits, 710 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
stargate/website
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Stargate public website
Contributions:6 reviews, 93 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 2 months
stargatereact
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