Sara Schertz
Senior Technical Writer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Schertz is a Senior Technical Writer with 10+ years crafting API and product documentation at scale, currently shaping developer and user-facing content at Amazon from her base in Seattle. She combines a strong technical foundation in C#, .NET, XML, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript with deep experience in single-sourcing, FrameMaker, RoboHelp, and Sandcastle to deliver class references, conceptual walkthroughs, and multi-channel help under tight deadlines. Comfortable switching between technical writer and business analyst roles, she has led requirements gathering, UAT, and UX collaboration for multi-lingual CRM and mobile projects at LexisNexis. Known for designing effective templates and style guides, she turns complex APIs into approachable getting-started guides and runnable code samples. A creative-writing and computer-science BA from UIUC, she brings both narrative clarity and engineering rigor—often surfacing UX improvements and automation opportunities that reduce future documentation effort.
10 years of coding experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (5)
forecast4
dates4
weather-api4
java4
api3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sschertz/holiday-library
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
simple Java library for calculating the dates of various holidays
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
javacalendardatesjava-library
sschertz/test-jekyll-site
May 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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