Steve Hetland
Technical Writer at Lacework
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarSteve Hetland is an experienced technical writer based in San Francisco with over two decades in documentation and eight years in senior roles shaping developer and product-facing content. He currently writes at Lacework and contributes as an Apache Druid committer, blending enterprise security product documentation with hands-on open-source data systems expertise. Previously he led tech docs at Imply and produced strategic documentation at Twitter, AppDynamics, Atlassian, Cisco, and Oracle, demonstrating an ability to scale documentation programs across startups and large enterprises. Steve is comfortable translating complex distributed systems and observability concepts into clear, actionable content for engineers and operators. Known for bridging engineering and writing, he often contributes to projects beyond docs—reviewing code, specs, and RFCs—to ensure documentation stays in sync with implementation. His career shows a steady progression from production and editorial roles into strategic documentation leadership in the cloud and data space.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (22)
spark10
big-data10
kafka10
apache-druid10
hadoop10
apache10
analytics10
java10
olap10
sql10
high-performance10
database10
druid10
golang6
column-oriented6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sthetland/druid
Jan 2020 - Jul 2023
Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
Contributions:6 PRs, 141 pushes, 32 branches in 3 years 6 months
real-time-analyticsanalyticssqlapachebig-data
sthetland/sthetland.github.io
Dec 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
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