Michael Cretzman
Lead Technical Writer at Sift
Greater Sacramento United States
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Top SchoolMichael Cretzman is a Lead Technical Writer with over 15 years of experience translating complex cloud-native, DevOps, security, and AI/ML systems into clear, scenario-driven documentation. He has led documentation teams and shipped guides for CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, and security tooling at companies like Harness, Datadog, and Sift, while integrating AI-assisted processes into doc review cycles. An AWS Certified Developer and holder of multiple ML certificates, he pairs technical credentials with hands-on experience documenting deployment, observability, and verification workflows across GCP, Azure, and AWS. Known for treating docs as product, he collaborates closely with PMs and engineers to make documentation an operational asset rather than an afterthought. Based in Greater Sacramento, he brings a rare mix of deep enterprise-system knowledge and practical developer-focused writing that helps teams adopt complex features faster.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. with Honors English Literature, B.A. with Honors English Literature at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (83)
hugo10
parser10
distributed-tracing10
microsoft-azure10
integrations10
terraform10
profiling10
opentelemetry10
ansible-galaxy10
stream-processing10
ansible-role10
monitoring10
harness10
apm-agent10
pipeline10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
michaelcretzman/cd-exp-hge
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:230 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
harness/ng-tooltip
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:10 reviews, 172 PRs, 153 pushes in 2 years
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