Matt Penna
Technical Writer at Tensor9
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Penna is a seasoned technical writer and documentation leader with 10+ years of experience helping enterprise and game studios translate complex systems into clear, actionable content. He has led documentation programs and hands-on docs-as-code work at Microsoft, VMware, GitLab, Epic Games, and Rackspace, often serving as the inaugural writer or interim manager to build processes, Confluence spaces, and Jira workflows from scratch. Comfortable in security-sensitive and certification-driven contexts, he has produced thousands of pages for Common Criteria evaluations and coordinated with 70+ SMEs under aggressive timelines. A former longtime sysadmin and IT director, Matt blends deep operational knowledge across *nix, Windows, and macOS with program management skills to bridge engineering, product, and support teams. Based in Rochester, NY, he’s rebooting his career with a focus on scalable docs and developer-facing APIs, bringing a rare mix of editing craft, process design, and hands-on infrastructure experience.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at McQuaid JesuitAdvanced Certificate Technical Communications, Advanced Certificate Technical Communications at Rochester Institute of TechnologyIntensive Japanese for Science & Technology, Intensive Japanese for Science & Technology at Kanazawa Institute of TechnologyJapanese Mandarin Chinese Italian, Japanese Mandarin Chinese Italian at University of Rochester
English, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
markdown10
exchange-online10
microsoft10
exchange-server10
openxml10
blog-engine10
ruby10
exchange10
skype10
microsoft-graph10
jekyll10
static-site10
liquid10
powershell10
site-generator10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mattpennathe3rd/Spec-Exercise
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 6 pushes, 9 branches in 1 day
mattpennathe3rd/rtd-tutorial
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 5 pushes, 8 branches in 1 day
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