Michael Benavidez
Senior Technical Writer at AMD
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Benavidez is a Senior Technical Writer with 11 years of experience crafting clear, pragmatic documentation for complex cloud and enterprise products, now contributing at AMD after a four-year senior role at VMware. He specializes in reducing user cognitive load through procedural guides, API references, and channel-flexible publishing (Markdown/Git and DITA/OxygenXML), and regularly partners with PMs, UX designers, and engineers across the software lifecycle. His background includes compliance-driven SOPs and global review coordination at Microsoft, plus hands-on operational leadership from earlier healthcare billing roles—giving him a rare blend of technical communication and process-driven stakeholder management. Based in Austin, he pairs a BBA in Management with a technical writing certificate, and he’s known for setting developer-friendly documentation norms and reviewing content directly in GitLab to keep docs and code aligned.
11 years of coding experience
Technical Writing Certificate, Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing, Technical Writing Certificate, Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing at Bellevue CollegeUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
Github Skills (102)
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kubernetes10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OfficePop/My-Repository
May 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
OfficePop/VanguardPatrol
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:73 pushes in 20 days
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