Marya Belanger
Technical Writer at Google DeepMind
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarya Belanger is a technical writer with six years’ experience shaping developer-facing, wiki-style documentation and building the systems that make docs reliable, discoverable, and maintainable. She has driven documentation architecture and contributor workflows at companies from Open Robotics—where her tutorials became the de facto onboarding for users and she designed a plan to unify docs across hundreds of repos—to Tesla and Google, and now contributes to DeepMind. Marya blends hands-on writing and content strategy with automation and tooling expertise, integrating documentation into engineering cycles and producing metrics-driven reports that keep content current. Comfortable extracting complex technical details from engineers, she excels at converting them into clear narratives and scalable documentation processes that reduce friction for both readers and contributors. Based in San Francisco, she also contributes to prominent open-source docs like the ROS 2 documentation, emphasizing clarity, consolidation, and long-term maintainability.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc.) Computer Science at Royal Commission for Yanbu Colleges & Institutes
English, Arabic
Github Skills (5)
restructuredtext10
documentation10
technical-writing10
operating-system9
ros9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ros2/ros2_documentation
Jun 2019 - Mar 2021
ROS 2 docs repository
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:55 reviews, 165 commits, 379 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Marya primarily contributed to the repository by improving the documentation. Their commits focused on clarifying existing content, correcting typos, fixing sentence structures, and generally enhancing the readability and accuracy of the documentation. They also refactored the documentation by introducing new sections, organizing content into different areas, and consolidating repeated text.
roboticsros-2rosros2
maryaB-osr/ros2_documentation
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
ROS2 docs repository
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
rosros2
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