Summary
Ryan Deussing is a Documentation Program Manager with 15 years of experience blending research, product thinking, and hands-on collaboration to lead technical writing teams for continuous-delivery products. At Red Hat he serves as the business unit contact and player-coach, aligning engineering, QA, product, and marketing to produce user-focused documentation. Previously the first product hire at a fintech startup, he combined user research with clear requirements to improve experiences for a platform moving $100M+ annually. His background spans founding and scaling content-led startups, web development with a focus on static/serverless and headless CMS workflows, and advising early-stage companies on web and content strategy. Based in Portland, Maine, he brings a rare mix of editorial instincts from journalism and documentary production together with pragmatic product and developer-facing documentation practices. He often operates at the intersection of content, product, and deployment pipelines—turning complex technical change into usable guidance.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Texas at Austin
HFF München
Columbia University
javascript, German, html, css