Russell Dickenson
Senior Technical Writer at GitLab Inc.
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRussell Dickenson is a Senior Technical Writer with 17 years in documentation and over 20 years' prior experience as a systems administrator, currently shaping developer-facing content at GitLab. He combines deep operational knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, SharePoint, Cisco networking and IBM iSeries with expertise in CMSs, plain-text/DocBook workflows, git/SVN and issue trackers to produce customer-focused, maintainable docs. Skilled in presentations and adhering to style guides, he bridges engineering and users by translating complex operational detail into clear, actionable guidance. Based in Greater Brisbane, he brings a pragmatic, continuity-minded perspective informed by disaster recovery and business continuity practice, making documentation a tool for real-world reliability.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business, Computing Major, Bachelor's degree, Business, Computing Major at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Github Skills (93)
domain-model10
lucene10
java10
hibernate10
text-search10
hibernate-search9
converting9
web-application9
opensearch9
coder9
elasticsearch9
technical-writing9
asciidoctor9
orm9
react9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
phayz/twidere_user_guide
Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
phayz/tw-practice
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Technical writing practise exercises
Contributions:7 reviews, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 29 days
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