Simran Spiller
Senior Technical Writer at Arango
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimran Spiller is a Senior Technical Writer with a decade of experience helping developer-focused products bridge the gap between powerful systems and real-world usage. Based in the Greater Hamburg Area, she leads documentation architecture and toolchain redesigns at Arango while contributing code fixes in C++ and JavaScript, blending technical authorship with hands-on engineering. Her open-source work includes enhancing AQL support in Prism.js and adding unit tests to ArangoDB, showing a knack for improving both developer UX and test infrastructure. She pairs documentation strategy with UX collaboration and sales enablement, and has a background in data migrations and archival systems that informs her focus on contextual data for enterprise AI.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft BerlinAbitur, Abitur at Freie Schule Hitzacker
German, English
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
javascript10
c-language10
cmake10
glsl10
regular-expression10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
syntax-highlighting10
testing9
qt9
dockers9
docker9
nosql-database9
cpp9
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
arangodb/arangodb
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:261 reviews, 946 commits, 822 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Simran contributed to the ArangoDB codebase by adding unit tests for AQL functions and logical operations. Their work included writing tests for the `TO_BOOL()` function and unary not operations within the `aql-functions-types.js` and `aql-logical.js` files. Additionally, the user made several minor corrections and adjustments to the code and documentation, further refining the project's functionality and maintainability.
data-modelsdatabase-modelextensionsjavascriptquery-language
olive-editor/olive
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Free open-source non-linear video editor
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 31 reviews, 90 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Simran contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the Olive video editor. They upgraded the shaders in OpenGL, modifying the shader code for blur, drop shadow, and stroke effects. In addition, they refactored the project's core and CMake files, demonstrating familiarity with build systems and overall project structure. They also contributed to the Docker build process, adding Docker image source files and updating existing ones.
cppwindowsvstvideo-editorlinux
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