Sammie Downing
Senior Technical Writer at New Relic, Inc.
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSammie Downing is a Senior Technical Writer based in the Greater Seattle Area with a decade of experience blending technical writing, product management, and agile leadership at companies like Databricks and New Relic. She specializes in docs-as-code workflows, Git, Markdown, and leading cross-functional teams to ship developer-facing documentation. Her background in product management and partner onboarding gives her a pragmatic, user-centered approach to documentation that balances technical accuracy with product goals. Sammie also contributes to well-known open-source docs projects—recently pushing improvements to New Relic’s docs website—demonstrating hands-on full-stack changes from MDX to JavaScript. Trained in creative writing with honors, she brings storytelling craft to complex technical topics, making them accessible without losing nuance.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, English, Creative Writing Track, Honors, Bachelor's degree, English, Creative Writing Track, Honors at Lake Forest CollegeHigh School Diploma, Creative Writing, High School Diploma, Creative Writing at Denver School of the Arts
Spanish
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
react10
web-development9
mdx9
gatsby8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/docs-website
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Source code for @newrelic docs. We welcome pull requests and questions on our docs!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1434 reviews, 953 commits, 1610 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sammie contributed to the New Relic documentation website by merging code changes from the `develop` branch. They added and modified various JavaScript and MDX files. These changes include the addition of new programming languages for syntax highlighting, a fix for a typo, and modifications to components and configuration files within the project.
newrelicbacklogasciidocfeedbackdocumentation-site
bpeckNR/docs-website
May 2024 - May 2024
Source code for @newrelic docs. We welcome pull requests and questions on our docs!
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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