Ryan Young
Staff Technical Writer at Stripe
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Young is a Staff Technical Writer in Berkeley with 11 years documenting complex technologies—specializing in RESTful APIs, SaaS platforms, and blockchain/cryptocurrency ecosystems. He has progressed from hands-on technical writing and team leadership at Ripple to shaping developer docs at Stripe, marrying rigorous editorial craft with engineering workflows like Git, Markdown, SSGs, and CI/CD. Ryan contributes to prominent open-source developer portals such as the XRPL developer site, where he improved tutorials and usability around XRP listing and funds flow. Comfortable collaborating with engineers and product teams, he brings experience integrating docs into agile toolchains (Confluence/JIRA, SVN) and automating help generation. His MA in English underpins a rare combination of storytelling clarity and technical precision that helps developer audiences adopt complex systems faster.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MA, English, MA, English at San Francisco State UniversityBA, English, BA, English at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (6)
api-documentation10
xrp10
website-design10
website-development10
code-documentation10
documentation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
XRPLF/xrpl-dev-portal
Jul 2016 - Apr 2021
Source code for xrpl.org including developer documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:25 reviews, 89 commits, 41 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the documentation of the XRP Ledger Developer Portal. Their commits focused on creating and updating guides, tutorials, and other informational content related to listing XRP on exchanges, including key definitions, flow of funds, and prerequisites. The user also reorganized existing content and added new pages, demonstrating a focus on improving the portal's usability and comprehensiveness. This involved updates to the tutorial-listing-xrp and associated files.
dactylxrplconsensusrippleapixrp-ledger
ryangyoung/ripple-dev-portal
Jan 2016 - Nov 2019
Ripple developer portal with documentation and examples
Contributions:32 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 10 months
rippledeveloper-portalportal
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