Matthew Helmke
Staff Technical Writer at Self-employed
North Liberty, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Helmke is a veteran technical writer and educator with over a decade of focused experience turning complex open source and cloud-native technologies into usable, audience-driven documentation. Currently a Staff Technical Writer at Chainguard, he’s helped build docs and learning programs across companies like Grafana Labs, Red Hat, and Canonical, and has authored and revised multiple editions of major Linux titles. He pairs hands-on product work (including early Kubernetes installs and CI/CD security projects at Adobe) with curriculum design and classroom teaching as an adjunct at the University of Arizona. A long-time open-source volunteer and reviewer, he blends editorial rigor with systems knowledge—often acting as the sole doc owner or program manager for projects and upstream communities. Unusually for a writer, he also ghostwrites, codes occasionally, and shapes branding lore (for example at Gremlin), making him adept at both technical depth and narrative.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
English, Spanish, Arabic, moroccan arabic, French
Github Skills (109)
dashboard10
postgresql10
saml10
grafana10
gmail10
juju10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
monitoring10
data-visualization10
text-generation10
observability10
mysql10
analytics10
charm10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
matthewhelmke/keycloak-documentation
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 147 pushes, 97 branches in 1 year 4 months
matthewhelmke/edu
Aug 2024 - May 2026
Educational Resources for Software Supply Chain Security
Contributions:161 pushes, 63 branches in 1 year 9 months
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