David O'brien
Principal Technical Editor at Red Hat
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid O'brien is a Principal Technical Editor at Red Hat with nearly 30 years of technical writing and editing experience and over a decade focused on open-source and enterprise Linux documentation. He leads standards and style development, mentors content authors, and builds tooling to automate QA for GLS courseware in RHEL, virtualization, and automation. Previously he scoped and documented major Red Hat products including Satellite and OpenShift, and earlier led multilingual documentation efforts for Caterpillar's MineStar. A lifelong language learner and self-described pedant, he combines deep editorial craft with hands-on product testing and UX collaboration to make complex technical content clear and usable. Based in Brisbane, he brings a rare mix of humanities-trained communication skills and practical systems administration knowledge.
13 years of coding experience
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Regency Park Community CollegeDiploma of IT, Network and System Administration, Diploma of IT, Network and System Administration at Ashby Allan InstituteBachelor of Arts (BA) Hons, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Hons, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General at Flinders University
English, Spanish, Italian, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (64)
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github-api-v410
mouse10
dictionary10
golang10
network10
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discord9
python9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
StyleGuides/WritingStyleGuide
May 2014 - Jan 2023
The official Red Hat guide to writing clear, concise, and consistent technical documentation.
Contributions:7 releases, 96 reviews, 288 commits in 8 years 9 months
redhatdictionarystyleguidetechnical-writing
theacrobot/AcroBot
Jan 2014 - Aug 2021
The new public version of the original acrobot
Contributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 58 commits in 7 years 7 months
discordbotdiscord-bot
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