John Williams
Lead Technical Writer, Cloud at MongoDB
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Williams is a Lead Technical Writer specializing in cloud and developer-facing documentation with six years of focused experience and a decade-plus background in enterprise software content. Based in Austin, he crafts API references, tutorials, and deployment guides for platforms like MongoDB Atlas and has automated documentation workflows using Terraform, Ansible, Python scraping, swagger-core, and Hugo templates. He pairs deep engineering collaboration—mentoring teammates and participating in hiring—with hands-on scripting that bridges docs and DevOps, such as building disposable Ops Manager environments and automating REST API publishing. A Carnegie Mellon–trained technical writer with prior roles at Oracle and CognitiveScale, he brings a rare mix of editorial rigor from legal and academic work plus practical infrastructure automation that speeds continuous delivery of documentation.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Arts, English, Bachelor's of Arts, English at West Liberty State UniversityMaster's of Arts, Technical Writing, Master's of Arts, Technical Writing at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (46)
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hashicorp10
kubernetes-operator10
terraform-provider10
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driver10
mongodb-atlas10
mongodb10
spark9
emr9
llm9
vscode-extension9
vector-database9
ocr9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jwilliams-mongo/docs-atlas-cli
Apr 2022 - May 2025
Documentation for the Atlas CLI
Contributions:40 pushes, 258 branches in 3 years 2 months
atlasatlas-clicli
jwilliams-mongo/docs-tools
Oct 2019 - Apr 2023
Common tools and content for MongoDB documentation projects.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 29 branches in 3 years 5 months
mongomongodb
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