Sarah Schneider
Staff Technical Writer at GitHub
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Schneider is a Staff Technical Writer and former software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building developer content systems and full-stack tooling at GitHub, Stripe, O'Reilly, and WGBH. She blends technical depth and clear communication—shaping docs and developer experiences while shipping code, including contributions to the high-profile github/docs repo where she implemented practical bookmarklets and middleware improvements. Her career spans roles from publishing technology to senior engineering and product management, giving her a rare cross-functional perspective on product, docs, and developer workflows. Based in Boston, she leverages an English BA to translate complex engineering concepts into usable documentation and tools that directly improve developer efficiency. Notably, she moves between writing and coding fluidly, removing friction in large-scale docs platforms and delivering both content strategy and implementable engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English at Boston University
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
front-end-development9
documentation7
rest-api5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
github/docs
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
The open-source repo for docs.github.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 1550 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sarah contributed to the documentation and implementation of the codebase. They removed specific logic and updated comments in a middleware file related to a table of contents. They also added new functionality by creating a bookmarklet directory and implementing several bookmarklets. These bookmarklets included functionality to add PR links, open files in VSCode, and view the content in different environments (Dotcom, GHEC, etc).
works-with-codespaces
zacharysarah-test-org/testing
Feb 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 3 months
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