Adam Locke
Lead Technical Writer at Palo Alto Networks
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Locke is a pragmatic, user-focused Lead Technical Writer with over a decade of experience turning complex hardware and software details into clear, consumable documentation for products at companies like IBM, DataStax, Elastic, Chronosphere, and Palo Alto Networks. He blends hands-on authoring—API docs, single-sourcing/DITA, and context-sensitive help—with product-minded collaboration across engineering, UX, and product teams to shape cohesive user experiences. Known for treating documentation like code, he’s implemented OpenAPI-driven API docs and championed doc-as-code workflows that bridge developer and writer tooling. Adam’s background includes people leadership from retail operations to technical teams, giving him uncommon strength in scaling processes and mentoring contributors. He enjoys “pulling apart” convoluted systems and re-architecting information for clarity, and is particularly adept at validating features by testing and breaking them to ensure accurate, usable docs. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines meticulous organization with continuous learning to drive documentation strategy in fast-moving, growth-oriented tech environments.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA English Technical Writing, BA English Technical Writing at Penn State University
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Github Skills (53)
search-engine10
observability10
kibana10
java10
restful10
logstash10
rest10
etl-framework10
fluent-bit10
elasticsearch10
logging10
elastic10
elasticstack10
visualizations10
jruby10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lockewritesdocs/elasticsearch
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:572 pushes, 1210 branches in 2 years 5 months
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
lockewritesdocs/lockewritesdocs
Apr 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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