Nik Richers
Head Of Docs at ValidMind
Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolNik Richers is a documentation and community leader with a decade of experience building docs, training, and developer-facing programs for enterprise and cloud platforms. Currently Head of Docs at ValidMind, he designs content frameworks and tooling for data scientists and engineers, runs OSS and community initiatives, and launched the company blog, newsletters, and webinar program. Previously at Elastic he scaled documentation for an Elasticsearch stack and Elastic Cloud to tens of millions of annual page views, creating UX writing practices and data-driven content improvements. His background in information architecture at IBM and hands-on DevOps contributions to high-profile repos (including work on elastic/docs build tooling) give him a rare blend of product, engineering, and content-operational fluency. Outside tech he’s taken leadership roles in maritime search-and-rescue and even taught university ethics, reflecting a pragmatic, service-oriented approach to complex problems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree Philosophy at Trent UniversityInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at UWC Atlantic CollegePh.D. Philosophy, Ph.D. Philosophy at York UniversityMaster's Degree Philosophy, Master's Degree Philosophy at Queen's University
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
terraformer10
asciidoc10
terraform10
cicd10
documentation10
cloud-computing9
bash9
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/docs
Feb 2018 - May 2021
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 57 commits, 161 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nik primarily contributed to the documentation build process for the `elastic/docs` repository. They modified build aliases, primarily within the `doc_build_aliases.sh` file, to incorporate new documentation sections for various Elastic Cloud products, including Elastic Cloud Control (ECCTL), Cloud Terraform provider, and Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE). Their work involved updating build configurations, adjusting paths, and ensuring proper integration of documentation for different components.
nrichers/docs
Aug 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:36 pushes, 33 branches in 4 years 5 months
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