Vinnie Tieto
Technical Writer at Microsoft
Emeryville, California, United States
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Top SchoolVinnie Tieto is a seasoned technical writer with over 15 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in mixed reality, AR/VR, and developer-facing documentation. Currently on Microsoft’s Mixed Reality team, he leads documentation for Microsoft Mesh and the Mesh SDK, acting as GitHub admin and collaborator with engineers to clarify complex topics like coordinate transforms and camera intrinsics. His background includes documenting hardware and APIs for Google Daydream/Tango, cloud services at Apple, and Android and Unity tooling, plus hands-on experience creating Unity tutorials, 3D models, and a VR game—skills that let him bridge authoring and applied content creation. He’s contributed to MicrosoftDocs/mixed-reality by adding versioning and UI improvements to docs, and he’s known for proposals that introduce developer personas and better engineering-to-doc workflows. Practical, detail-oriented, and creatively technical, he combines deep platform knowledge with a maker’s experience in modeling, animation, and tutorial production.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
New Jersey City University / Heald Business College / Santa Rosa Junior College
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Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/mixed-reality
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Mixed Reality documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 reviews, 868 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vinnie primarily focused on modifying the `.acrolinx-config.edn` file and incorporating versioning and related CSS/JS files within the "world-locking-tools" directory. These changes appear to involve updating the allowed branch names and filename matches for documentation-related purposes and adding a version dropdown menu to the documentation. The user also modified and added supporting files to include the dropdown script, style, and related versioning code.
realityarcorevirtual-realityvirtualrealityaugmented-reality
vtieto/instruments1-070721
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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