Tommy Melvin
Technical Writer at Elia Group
Brussels, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Melvin is a technical writer with five years of experience blending clear communication, content strategy, and project management to help developer teams onboard and ship documentation. Based in Brussels, he currently supports developer productivity at Elia Group by documenting an in-house .NET framework and templating tool. He has hands-on open-source documentation experience with Meilisearch, where he restructured guides, clarified core concepts and APIs, and improved phrasing to make complex topics more accessible. A detail-oriented editor and former language student in Japanese literature, he brings a translator’s sensitivity to tone and clarity that enhances international and technical audiences alike.
5 years of coding experience
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at 19Bachelor’s Degree, Japanese Language and Literature, Bachelor’s Degree, Japanese Language and Literature at Bennington CollegeJapanese Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature at Kansai Gaidai University
Japanese, French, English
Github Skills (6)
markdown10
markdown-it10
documentation10
technical-writing10
vuepress9
git7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
meilisearch/documentation
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Meilisearch documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1182 reviews, 437 commits, 370 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tommy's contributions primarily revolve around the documentation of the Meilisearch project. They restructured existing documentation, moved files, added new documentation, and corrected grammar and phrasing throughout the guides. They focused on explaining core concepts, advanced topics, and the API, showing a significant commitment to improving the clarity and organization of the documentation.
vuepressmeilisearch
react-learner/documentation
Sep 2020 - May 2021
Meilisearch documentation
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 18 branches in 7 months
meilisearch
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