Steve Burnett
Principal Technical Writer at IBM
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Burnett is a Principal Technical Writer based in Raleigh, NC with a multi-decade career translating complex distributed systems into clear, usable documentation. He is a Presto committer and leads documentation for the popular Presto distributed SQL engine (a Linux Foundation project), regularly authoring CLI, connector, and feature docs that bridge open-source engineering and enterprise users. After leading docs at Ahana and coordinating its transition into IBM, he now shapes IBM’s Presto and benchmarking documentation while contributing to community-driven tooling like PBench. Comfortable in both legacy XML toolchains and modern docsites (Sphinx, Docusaurus, Markdown, CI-driven publishing), Steve combines deep systems knowledge with a historian’s attention to detail and a knack for making intricate deployments approachable.
2 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Technical Communication, M.S. Technical Communication at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (9)
presto10
documentation10
cli9
pdf6
nvidia6
shiny6
actionbutton6
gpu6
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prestodb/presto
May 2023 - Apr 2025
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1668 reviews, 210 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the project by updating and creating documentation. The commits focused on improving the existing documentation for the Presto CLI, and also adding documents for new features. The contributions include documentation for file based metastore, and also documentation for new connector documentation pages.
distributed-sqlquerybigdataquery-enginesql
steveburnett/tsc
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Presto Foundation TSC
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year
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