Daniel Tafoya
Technical Writer at Duro
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Tafoya is a technical writer with eight years of experience at top cloud providers, including AWS and Google, and a strong track record documenting open-source projects and SaaS products. He crafts user guides, API references, CLI examples, and UI text for service consoles, and has built documentation from the ground up for services like AWS Security Hub and Step Functions. With a Master’s in Human Centered Design and Engineering and classroom experience helping students improve writing, he blends user-focused design thinking with precise, developer-facing content. He regularly collaborates with engineers and product teams in Agile environments, leverages Git/GitHub workflows, and experiments with AI tools to draft and analyze content. Notably, he has written internal ML tooling docs and interactive Flutter tutorials, showing comfort across both developer platforms and consumer-facing consoles. Based in Santa Monica, he excels at managing time-sensitive, ambiguous projects while turning complex technical concepts into clear, actionable documentation.
7 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Human Centered Design and Engineering, Master's degree, Human Centered Design and Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor's degree, English with a Concentration in Technical Writing, Bachelor's degree, English with a Concentration in Technical Writing at San José State UniversityAssociate of Arts (A.A.), English Language and Literature, General, Associate of Arts (A.A.), English Language and Literature, General at Pasadena City College
Github Skills (2)
dart10
flutter10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
datafoya/website
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Flutter web site
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
web-siteflutterwebdartflutter-webflutter-widget
datafoya/hello-world
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
this is a test
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
testingjavascript
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