Sandy Lai
Lead Technical Writer - Heroku at Salesforce
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSandy Lai is a documentation leader with 11 years of experience based in Toronto, known for shaping developer-focused content during a long tenure at Heroku. With a background that blends web development training from Bitmaker Labs and a science-and-education foundation from University of Guelph and OISE, she translates complex technical topics into clear, usable guidance for engineers and product teams. Sandy excels at bridging developer experience and instructional design, bringing classroom-honed communication skills to developer documentation and onboarding. She pairs practical web development knowledge with a nuanced appreciation for pedagogy, making documentation both accurate and learnable. Colleagues rely on her to turn intricate platform changes into accessible, actionable content that reduces support load and accelerates adoption.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Chemistry, General Science, Drama, French + other AQs, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Chemistry, General Science, Drama, French + other AQs at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of TorontoBachelor of Science (BSc), Drama and Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Drama and Biochemistry at University of GuelphWeb Development Certificate, Computer Software Engineering, Web Development Certificate, Computer Software Engineering at Bitmaker Labs
Spanish, French
Github Skills (17)
npm-cli10
herokuapp10
heroku-cli10
spring-boot10
heroku-deployment10
heroku10
nodejs10
buildpack10
cli10
java9
slug8
slugify7
pipeline2
yarn-workspaces1
nx-workspace1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SandyPantsLai/rails-pg-example-shop
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Solidus e-commerce demo app backed by Postgres used to try different things out on Heroku
Contributions:23 PRs, 113 pushes, 43 branches in 6 months
herokudemo-appecommercecommercesolidus
SandyPantsLai/THS_app
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:33 pushes, 13 branches in 15 days
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