About

My craft is clarity. 🛠️ I’m a translator at heart who loves to play with words and code.

I was working at a public library when I read Program or Be Programmed and started my journey learning to code through open source communities at local meetups. I got involved with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and found I love helping people with clear information, smooth experiences, and tech designed for collaboration and good.

Since then, I’ve found myself at the intersections of words, code, and helping people.

In my current role as a Lead Technical & UX Writer at Netlify, I develop accurate and clear help content to guide developers and cross-functional teams through various workflows spanning an in-app UI experience, API, third-party tools, the terminal, and beyond.

Before Tech

Before I got into tech I did the following:

• worked at a local public library
• got accepted to an Applied Linguistics Master’s program
• worked at international exchange non-profits that served adults and young people
• taught English as a Foreign Language and U.S. American poetry at the Volzhsky Institute of Humanities to Russian college students
• studied Russian Art History at the Volzhsky Institute of Humanities
• tutored adult students in ESL (English as a Second Language)
• gave our non-profit’s System Administrator a cupcake on SysAdmin day (without knowing it was SysAdmin day 😆)