Mickey Sattler
Burning Man Black Rock Ranger at Burning Man, LLC
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMickey Sattler is a veteran technologist and technical writer who has been translating complex systems into clear, actionable documentation and tools since the early 1980s. With deep hands-on experience across systems programming, databases, embedded devices, blockchain stacks, and developer APIs, he pairs historical perspective (assembly-to-modern languages) with current practice in RSpec, Ruby, and developer tooling. He has led documentation and QA efforts at startups and enterprises—designing scalable doc workflows, automating test and release processes, and producing API and onboarding materials that integrate with Agile pipelines. An experienced quality engineer and author, Mickey has shipped production code, authored books and O’Reilly content, and built automated tooling for CI, device labs, and data validation. Based in California and serving long-term as a Burning Man Black Rock Ranger and EMT, he brings incident-command experience and practical crisis communication skills to high-pressure technical contexts. Notably, his career blends low-level systems craftsmanship with modern content pipelines (DITA, Markdown/git, Docusaurus), making him effective at bridging engineers, product teams, and developer communities.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Physical Sciences, Diploma, Physical Sciences at Bridgewater Raritan High SchoolB. Sc., Mathematics, Computer Science, B. Sc., Mathematics, Computer Science at Boston University
German, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
bash7
macos6
jekyll3
github-pages2
privacy-protection2
markdown1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mickeys/how_to_tips_and_tricks
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
mickeys/lose-weight-keto
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:124 commits, 112 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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