Summary
Steve Renaker is a Senior Technical Writer with 16 years of engineering and documentation experience, currently shaping developer-facing content at Aerospike from Palo Alto. He specializes in databases (Aerospike, MongoDB, MySQL), cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), and scripting languages (Ruby, Python, Perl), bringing developer-first clarity to complex distributed systems. His background as a hands-on web developer and software engineer informs pragmatic guides and examples that bridge product and engineering teams. Unusually for a technologist, he trained as a musician (MM, Oberlin/BMus) and spent years building and repairing harpsichords, a craft that echoes his attention to historical detail and precision in technical communication.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MM, Music, MM, Music at Yale University
B. Mus, music, B. Mus, music at Oberlin College
Spanish