Lucas Costi
Senior Technical Writer at Canva
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolLucas Costi is a Senior Technical Writer with 11 years of experience translating complex developer and infrastructure products into clear, user-focused documentation. With a background in system administration and hands-on roles at Red Hat and GitHub, he uniquely blends operational knowledge with product empathy to test features and document real user journeys across CI/CD, APIs, and enterprise platforms. He led documentation efforts for GitHub Actions and served as release documentation manager for GitHub Enterprise Server, contributing directly to the open-source github/docs repo to keep enterprise releases accurate and versioned. Now at Canva in Queensland, he continues to shepherd technical content for fast-moving products while leveraging certifications in Red Hat systems and automation. Outside work he’s an all-round tech geek — from AFOL to sci‑fi fan — and a liver transplant recipient, an experience that informs his resilient, user-centered approach to documentation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, (History, Peace & Conflict Studies), Bachelor of Arts, (History, Peace & Conflict Studies) at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (14)
graphql10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
documentation10
indexing9
versioning8
visualvm6
maven6
load-balancing6
jboss6
disaster-recovery6
out-of-memory6
high-availability6
java6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
github/docs
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
The open-source repo for docs.github.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:269 reviews, 183 commits, 216 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily worked on updating and maintaining the GitHub documentation. Their commits involve fixing documentation errors, updating search indexes, and adding versioning for enterprise features. The user also appears to be involved with GraphQL schema updates and testing. The contributions indicate a focus on keeping the documentation accurate and up-to-date with the latest GitHub Enterprise Server releases and features.
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lucascosti/superpublictest
Apr 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 30 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 7 months
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