Daryl White
Sr. Technical Writer at vCluster
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDaryl White is a senior technical writer who turns complex cloud, storage, and Kubernetes concepts into clear, usable documentation and training with over a decade of experience in software-focused education and docs-as-code workflows. He has led large migrations (737 Sphinx files to Hugo) and onboarding programs, mentored new writers to competency, and built AI-assisted content workflows that cut review time substantially. At MinIO he expanded and clarified critical object-storage docs (including mc mirror, replication, and site recovery) and contributed to the well-known MinIO docs repo, while at vCluster he now owns Kubernetes management documentation. Comfortable working across engineering, sales, and design, he combines classroom-style training design with developer-focused writing, and he’s as likely to produce animated GIFs and video as he is to design an Agile docs backlog. Based in Williamsport, PA, Daryl’s strength is learning hard technical domains quickly and explaining them in the exact language a practitioner needs.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Divinity, Religious Studies, Master of Divinity, Religious Studies at Samford UniversityBA, History; Biblical Studies, BA, History; Biblical Studies at Ouachita Baptist University
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Github Skills (13)
content-management-system10
restructuredtext10
content-management10
documentation10
technical-writing10
updater9
update-site9
minio9
autoupdate9
live-update9
automatic-updates9
object-storage7
yaml6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
minio/docs
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
MinIO Object Storage Documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1179 reviews, 73 commits, 450 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Daryl contributed to the documentation of the MinIO object storage solution. The commits primarily focused on clarifying the usage of the `mc mirror` command, adding new sections to the documentation for features like site recovery, replication, and batch processing, and expanding coverage of the `mc support` commands. The user also updated existing documentation to reflect changes in `mc` releases, including updates to flags and command syntax.
minioobject-storagesphinx
writethedocs/www
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
The main website for Write the Docs.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:21 reviews, 24 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daryl primarily contributed to the `writethedocs/www` repository by updating the book club section of the website. Their commits reflect updates to book club reads, including adding new books, updating reading schedules, and correcting typos. The user's work involved modifying reStructuredText files to maintain and expand the content related to the book club.
sphinx-docsphinx
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