Mikey Ariel
Senior Content Strategist
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMikey Ariel is a seasoned content strategist and technical writer with 11 years of experience shaping developer-facing documentation and community programs at Red Hat and Write the Docs. Based in Prague, she blends hands-on open-source contributions—improving CLI error messaging, docstrings, and test behavior for projects like minishift—with leadership in community operations as Write the Docs global operations manager and chair. Comfortable at the intersection of engineering, docs, and DevOps, she translates complex backend and CLI concerns into clear, usable content while advocating for inclusive documentation practices. Outside work she brings creative energy as a musician, dancer, and videographer, which informs her knack for storytelling and producing engaging technical content.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Certificate at OnTarget Communications
English, Hebrew, Czech
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
restructuredtext10
technical-writing10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
documentation10
container9
structures9
content-management-system9
content-management9
self-organization9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
writethedocs/www
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
The main website for Write the Docs.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:232 reviews, 509 commits, 213 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mikey's contributions primarily focus on improving the documentation for the Write the Docs website. They edited and added documentation to the existing structure, as well as added new content describing the writing day and its activities. The user also added new pages and links related to the schedule and presentations, news items, and other documentation-related features.
sphinx-docsphinx
minishift/minishift
Nov 2016 - Aug 2017
Run OpenShift 3.x locally | This project does not see active developement and maintenance.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:32 commits, 41 PRs, 370 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Mikey's contributions focused on reviewing and improving the informational and error messages within the codebase. They also made changes to the minikube cluster and the openshift version tests, modifying error handling and output. Furthermore, the user worked on documentation, including docstrings and the general documentation of the project. Their work touched on both backend code and the command-line interface, suggesting involvement in application logic and user-facing features.
containersdevelopment-toolsminishiftpaasopenshift-local
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