Summary
Monica Cellio is a multidisciplinary software and community leader with nearly three decades of experience blending technical writing, API design, and hands-on engineering to make developer tools and documentation both usable and robust. As Community Lead and Director at the Codidact Foundation, she shapes product features, authors docs and tutorials, triages issues, and mentors volunteer moderators while also serving on the board of a nonprofit open-source project. Previously a principal technical writer and scrum master at Vertica, she drove migrations to git, automated example testing, and coached cross-functional teams to ship quality software without micromanagement. A long-time volunteer moderator on Stack Exchange, she brings rare deep expertise in community moderation, content strategy, and making data tools accessible to non-experts. Colleagues know her for servant leadership: she routinely removes roadblocks herself—whether by backporting a bugfix or writing tests—to keep teams focused and productive.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Technical Writing, minor in Computer Science, BS, Technical Writing, minor in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University