Toby Drake
Greater New Orleans Region United States
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Top SchoolToby Drake is a technical communicator with nine years of experience turning complex engineering and cloud technologies into clear, actionable content for developers, network engineers, technicians, and end users. He combines content strategy, technical writing, instructional design, and illustration skills to produce installation/configuration guides, help topics, training, and procedures across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba), Kubernetes/OpenShift, and middleware like Apache Kafka. Comfortable with both infrastructure (servers, switches, HA clusters, Ansible) and software tooling (Docker, Helm, Python, Git), Toby bridges engineering nuance and user-focused clarity. His background in English and technical communication enables him to deconstruct disjointed technical material into logical, concise deliverables that reduce onboarding friction and operational errors. Based in the Greater New Orleans region, he brings a practical blend of hands-on IT experience (fiber installation, IP telephony, Cisco IOS) and polished documentation craft that helps teams move from concept to repeatable execution.
9 years of coding experience
BA, English, Technical Communication, Journalism, BA, English, Technical Communication, Journalism at Texas Tech University
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Github Skills (72)
debezium10
command-line-interface10
proxy10
sink10
azure-cli10
security10
rest-api10
confluent-platform10
microservices10
control-center10
monitoring10
avro10
stream10
interactive10
rest10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tobydrake7/improved-carnival
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
content samples
Contributions:32 PRs, 18 pushes, 33 branches in 2 days
tobydrake7/connect-doc-templates
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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