Richie Escarez
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRichie Escarez is a seasoned information experience writer, tech lead, and manager with 11 years in cloud-native and developer-focused documentation. Based in Seattle, he led Google’s Serverless Information Experience team supporting Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, App Engine, and Buildpacks, and previously served as a Knative and Anthos documentation tech lead. His background blends hands-on technical writing across Kubernetes, App Engine, and IBM data products with people and infrastructure ownership roles, demonstrating comfort with both content and systems. An active contributor to the Knative docs repository, he focuses on maintainability and accessibility—fixing rendering issues, broken links, and importing community content. Richie’s B.A. in Technical Communication from the University of Washington underpins a career of translating complex cloud concepts into clear, usable documentation while scaling teams and processes. He brings a pragmatic mix of editorial rigor and product-focused leadership that drives developer adoption.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Technical Communication, Bachelors, Technical Communication at University of Washington
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Github Skills (14)
serverless10
knative10
documentation10
kubernetes-pods9
markdown-it9
markdown9
kubernetes9
google-cloud-platform6
google-app-engine6
java6
rest-api4
api-rest4
restful-api4
api-design4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
knative/docs
Jul 2018 - Sep 2021
User documentation for Knative components.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:14 releases, 47 reviews, 162 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Richie primarily contributes to the documentation of the Knative project. Their commits focus on updating existing documentation files, adding front matter to blog posts, and converting and importing blog posts from Medium. They also fixed rendering issues and corrected broken images and links within the documentation, demonstrating a focus on maintaining the quality and accessibility of the project's documentation.
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RichieEscarez/docs
Jul 2018 - Sep 2021
Documentation for users of Knative components
Contributions:24 PRs, 786 pushes, 320 branches in 3 years 2 months
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