Sarah Simpers
Staff Developer Educator
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Simpers is a Staff Developer Educator with five years of hands-on experience translating complex developer tools and cloud products into clear, actionable documentation. Previously a lead technical writer for MongoDB Cloud, she contributed directly to the high-profile mongodb/docs project—revamping connection-string guidance, adding Rust support, and documenting Atlas CLI workflows—bridging developer experience and product precision. Her background spans sole-writer roles at cloudtamer.io to team leadership on government database programs, giving her both startup agility and enterprise process rigor. Trained in writing at Johns Hopkins and self-taught in databases and WordPress, she combines editorial craft with practical technical skills. Known for a docs-as-code mindset and hyper-organization, she focuses on making developer-facing content discoverable, reproducible, and developer-friendly. Colleagues describe her as the person who turns tricky database behaviors into crisp how-tos that engineers actually use.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Github Skills (7)
rs10
restructuredtext10
mongodb-atlas10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
documentation10
technical-writing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/docs
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
The MongoDB Documentation Project Source.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 PR in 13 days
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily contributed to the MongoDB documentation project. Their commits focused on adding and modifying documentation content, including adding notes about range operators, specifying readConcern requirements, and creating compatibility includes. They revamped the connection strings page and added Rust to the connection string dropdown. The user also added steps and procedures for interacting with MongoDB Atlas, which includes Atlas CLI information and querying methods.
mongodbproject-documentation
sarahsimpers/mongocli
Apr 2022 - Jan 2025
MongoDB CLI enables you to manage your MongoDB in the Cloud
Contributions:74 pushes, 101 branches in 2 years 9 months
mongomongodb-climongodb-databasenodejsmongodb
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