Peter Desjardins
Technical Documentation Manager
Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Desjardins is a Technical Documentation Manager with 11+ years of experience building docs-as-code teams and automated publishing systems for startups and enterprise SaaS. He has founded documentation functions at multiple companies—most recently at Toast—where he hired and scaled writer teams, designed CI-integrated XML publishing pipelines, and authored REST API developer docs to grow partner ecosystems. Deeply technical, Peter writes sample code, Java and XML tooling, XSLT, and release automation to tighten developer onboarding and reduce maintenance costs. He pairs product-focused pragmatism with a developer mindset, optimizing documentation investment to match business maturity and agile release cadences. Based in Bedford, MA, he’s known for turning documentation from a cost center into a scalable engineering asset that accelerates integration and customer success.
11 years of coding experience
Macalester CollegeCushing Academy
English
Github Skills (46)
lms10
webapi10
rest10
specification10
edx10
xslt9
metadata9
oas9
openapi9
xml9
docbook8
swagger8
data-management8
portal8
itil8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
toasttab/redocly-portal-configuration
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Starter template for the Redocly developer portal
Contributions:40 reviews, 66 PRs, 194 pushes in 1 year 8 months
templateredoclydeveloper-portalportal
toasttab/xslt10-stylesheets
Mar 2019 - Jan 2024
XSLT 1.0 Stylesheets for DocBook
Contributions:2 releases, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 10 months
docbookxmlstylesheetsaccessibilityxslt
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