Uma K
Technical Writing Manager at Nordic Semiconductor
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolUma K is a Technical Writing Manager with over six years of experience shaping developer-facing documentation and a prior decade of hands-on engineering and storage systems expertise. Based in Trondheim, she leverages deep domain knowledge in mid-range SAN/NAS (EMC Celerra/CLARiiON) and Microsoft/virtualized infrastructures to translate complex performance and stress-test findings into clear solution guides, white papers, and ESRP documents. At Nordic Semiconductor she progressed from technical writer to manager, contributing notably to high-profile open-source projects like the nRF Connect SDK by improving API docs, samples, and changelogs to enhance developer UX. She combines practical test-lab experience and onsite customer collaboration with a meticulous editorial eye, making her especially effective at bridging engineering teams and product consumers. Her background in both producing and automating test cases gives her documentation a rare, evidence-driven rigor that helps teams ship reliable embedded and storage solutions.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Engineering, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Engineering, Information Technology at University of Kerala
English, Norwegian, Hindi, Malayalam
Github Skills (9)
user-manual10
guideline10
api-documentation10
rs10
restructuredtext10
sphinx10
documentation10
user-guide10
technical-writing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1836 reviews, 137 commits, 180 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Uma's contributions primarily focus on documenting various aspects of the `nRF Connect SDK main repository`. The commits involve adding and updating documentation for samples, code examples, and guides related to different libraries and applications. The user updated API documentation, fixed formatting issues, restructured existing documentation and added links to documentation related to the device, thereby improving the overall clarity and user experience of the SDK.
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdkinfinibandlteppp
nrfconnect/sdk-nrfxlib
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Nordic common libraries
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:106 reviews, 13 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Uma's contributions primarily involved documentation updates within the `nrfconnect/sdk-nrfxlib` repository. They focused on correcting API documentation issues and updating changelogs across multiple components, including GNSS interface, and various SDK modules. These changes improved the clarity and accuracy of the documentation, reflecting a commitment to maintaining up-to-date and informative resources for developers. The user also fixed typos and made formatting corrections, improving the overall readability and usability of the documentation.
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