Paul Gottschling is a technical writer with nine years of experience turning complex cloud and infrastructure tooling into clear, actionable documentation. Based in New York, he currently documents Teleport while previously producing long-form how-to guides and validated demos for Datadog covering Kubernetes, Istio, Consul, ECS/Fargate and more. He combines hands-on dev skills—contributions to projects like Teleport and Hugo and fixes in API examples and template rendering—with deep troubleshooting instincts for cryptic errors and environment validation across AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform and Docker. Trained in anthropology, philosophy and architecture research, he brings a researcher's attention to detail and a knack for making technical systems approachable for engineers and operators alike.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University College London
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Architecture Research, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Architecture Research at The University of Manchester
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology and Philosophy, 3.84, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology and Philosophy, 3.84 at William & Mary
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5863 reviews, 838 commits, 3219 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to improving the Teleport documentation and examples. Their work included adding guides for API usage related to service discovery and role creation. Additionally, the user fixed issues within the Docker Compose Getting Started guide, contributing to the overall usability of the Teleport platform. They also addressed bugs in the documentation and API client code examples.
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the Hugo static site generator by addressing several issues related to template rendering and content processing. They fixed a bug in the handling of partials with falsy arguments, ensuring correct execution and return values. They also resolved a problem with the `.RenderString` function in translations, and addressed a bug related to missing page data for alternative formats. Furthermore, the user corrected a problem in how output format relations were handled, specifically preventing unexpected overwrites of user-defined "rel" attributes.
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