Richard Hoch
Senior Technical Writer at Red Hat
Israel
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Top SchoolRichard Hoch is a senior technical writer based in Israel with over 20 years of documentation experience and six years focused on cloud/middleware at Red Hat. He crafts GUI and CLI end-user guides for Migration and Modernization Solutions, driving better findability and a more CLI-centric usability approach as he transitions from a Microsoft to a Linux/Git workflow. His background spans cybersecurity API docs, clinical user manuals for life‑saving healthcare software, and technical marketing for telecom billing systems, reflecting an ability to translate complex domain knowledge for diverse audiences. Richard combines academic rigor—holding advanced study in religious studies—with practical teaching experience, which informs his clear, audience-centered documentation style. He has a track record of improving documentation platforms and internal knowledge management to boost discoverability and team effectiveness. Colleagues describe him as a reliable communicator who interviews engineers in multiple languages and bridges product, engineering, and customer needs.
6 years of coding experience
Mission San Jose High SchoolTeaching Credential, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, Teaching Credential, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor at OranimPh.D, Religious Studies, Ph.D, Religious Studies at UC Santa BarbaraThe Hebrew University of JerusalemUniversity of HaifaBachelor of Arts - BA, Jewish/Judaic Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Jewish/Judaic Studies at Stanford University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (22)
markdown10
asciidoc10
upstream10
css10
sass10
haml10
ruby10
ovirt10
openshift10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
html10
website-design10
documentation10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RichardHoch/openshift-docs
May 2020 - Feb 2025
OpenShift 3 and 4 documentation
Contributions:1215 pushes, 154 branches in 4 years 9 months
commonskubernetesopenshift
RichardHoch/forklift-documentation
Dec 2021 - Jul 2026
Forklift documentation
Contributions:1747 pushes, 225 branches in 4 years 7 months
forkliftforklift-documentation
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