Sarah Chavis
Senior Technical Writer at IBM
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Chavis is a Senior Technical Writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of technical experience and five years focused specifically on documentation in tech, fintech, and biotech. She builds clear, user-centered developer and API documentation and has led content teams and style strategy at companies including Square, Microsoft, HashiCorp, and now IBM. Her background as a software engineer and DBA gives her an uncommon fluency with technical systems—she’s shipped developer guides, SDK docs, and API lifecycle content while also managing migrations and tooling improvements. Sarah contributes to high-profile open source projects like HashiCorp Vault, where her documentation updates help surface deprecations and improve CLI and plugin guidance for security-sensitive workflows. Known for bridging product, engineering, and UX, she drives consistent voice and processes that help teams scale documentation contributions.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (6)
api-documentation10
vault10
documentation10
cli9
secrets8
go4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
May 2023 - Apr 2025
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1179 reviews, 689 PRs, 1132 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Sarah's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating documentation, specifically focusing on the `website/redirects.js` file. These changes include updating deprecation pages, refreshing CLI content for audit commands, and making AD secrets plugins EOL. The impact of these changes is to enhance the user experience and accurately reflect the current state of features and API changes within the HashiCorp Vault project. This suggests a focus on maintaining and improving the documentation aspect of the project.
golanghashicorp-vaultaccess-managementsecurityvault
schavis/vault
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 days
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