Brian Moss
Staff Knowledge Engineer at MongoDB
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Moss is a Staff Knowledge Engineer at MongoDB with 12 years of experience crafting and curating high-quality technical documentation and knowledge bases for both internal and external audiences. He blends deep editorial rigor—honed through roles at Rackspace and Red Hat—with hands-on engineering practices, contributing to open-source projects like OpenStack manuals and mtools where he improved tooling, testing, and documentation formats. Comfortable working across content, searchability and presentation, he reviews peer submissions and drives site usability improvements that reduce time-to-answer for customers and support teams. His background includes advanced humanities training (DPhil from Oxford in Classics), which gives him a rare strength in clear, structured communication and complex information architecture. Based in Brisbane, he balances technical stewardship with practical DevOps sensibilities and a habit of polishing edge-case typos and formatting issues that often slip past others. Outside work he’s an avid cyclist, reader and board-game player, reflecting a mix of analytical focus and collaborative play.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Greek and Roman Studies, Master of Arts (M.A.), Greek and Roman Studies at University of VictoriaDPhil, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, DPhil, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at University of Oxford
Github Skills (11)
rs10
openstack10
restructuredtext10
mongodb10
python10
documentation10
tox10
mongodb-database10
testing10
flake9
devops8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rueckstiess/mtools
Sep 2017 - May 2020
A collection of scripts to set up MongoDB test environments and parse and visualize MongoDB log files.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 21 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the project by updating metadata in the `setup.py` file, including the addition of a license, classifiers, and keywords. They also converted the `README.md` file to `README.rst` for better rendering. Furthermore, the user enabled tox testing and addressed flake8 violations by adding testing requirements and fixing code style issues. These changes reflect a focus on project maintainability and testing practices.
logfilemongodb
openstack/openstack-manuals
Aug 2014 - Apr 2017
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:103 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily involve converting documentation files from XML to RST format. These changes include converting chapters related to the dashboard, object storage, compute, telemetry, and block storage. In addition, the user removed the HOT Guide from the User Guide and fixed typos, demonstrating a focus on improving the quality and organization of documentation.
openstack
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