Michele Cyran
Senior Principal Technical Writer at Redpanda Data
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMichele Cyran is a Senior Principal Technical Writer with over two decades of experience transforming complex enterprise and developer technologies into clear, usable content. Currently at Redpanda Data, she operates in a docs-as-code environment producing developer docs, API references, tutorials, and multimedia that bridge engineering, product, and open-source communities. Previously at Oracle she shaped documentation strategy and standards across SaaS, PaaS, and Database products, leading major data- and search-related documentation initiatives and mentoring writer teams. Michele combines a writer’s precision with technical tooling fluency—VS Code, AsciiDoc, DITA, and metadata-driven content—and is an early adopter of AI to enhance content discoverability and consistency. Based in Littleton, Colorado, she pairs a BA in English with a pragmatic focus on user experience, often rethinking content structure to surface the right information at the right stage of the user journey.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English at Boston College
Github Skills (33)
kubernetes10
storage-engine10
realtime10
jvm10
kafka10
zookeeper10
data-platform10
java10
redpanda10
event-driven10
antora10
go10
seastar10
api10
stream-processing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/cloud-docs
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Redpanda Cloud documentation
Contributions:243 reviews, 197 PRs, 636 pushes in 9 months
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redpanda-data/docs
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Open source content for the Redpanda documentation
Contributions:1164 reviews, 259 PRs, 848 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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