Dail Magee
Senior Technical Writer at Expert Support
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDail Magee is an award-winning senior technical writer and information architect with 11+ years translating complex developer and AI platform concepts into clear, maintainable documentation. He has shaped docs and metadata for major products at NVIDIA (Jetson, Maxine, Riva) and Temporal, co-designing modular information architectures that cut redesign time and optimize content for both humans and LLMs. Comfortable in code and tooling, he pairs hands-on experience with JavaScript, Ruby, Python, DITA, Git/GitHub, and common publishing stacks to produce everything from SDK references and CLI guides to UX text and diagrams. A longtime Microsoft alumnus, he’s led taxonomy and metadata programs at scale and mentors other writers on technical accuracy and discoverability. Quietly pragmatic, he blends editorial rigor with developer fluency—often working directly from source code to ensure docs match implementation.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) cum laude Electronics Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) cum laude Electronics Technology at Walla Walla UniversityCertificate Computer Software Engineering, Certificate Computer Software Engineering at Coding Dojo Seattle
English
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Github Skills (8)
markdown10
docusaurus10
markdown-it10
documentation10
technical-writing10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
temporalio/documentation
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Temporal documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:1208 reviews, 86 commits, 249 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Dail primarily contributed to the Temporal documentation repository, focusing on updating and expanding the reference material for the `tctl` command-line tool and Temporal Cloud. Their work involved removing MDX and rewriting pages, adding new command references (like for namespaces, accounts and certificate-filters), and updating the sidebar navigation and general documentation content. Furthermore, they created onboarding content and release notes to improve the user experience.
docusaurustemporal
dailma/scratch-space
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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