Julie Stickler
Staff Technical Writer at Grafana Labs
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJulie Stickler is a Staff Technical Writer with nine years in senior and staff roles and over two decades of experience authoring and single-sourcing complex product documentation for enterprise and open-source software. She specializes in modular writing, template design, indexing, and toolchains (MadCap Flare, FrameMaker, RoboHelp) and has driven documentation strategy at Grafana Labs and Red Hat, including single-sourcing release notes and multi-product Jaeger docs. Julie blends technical fluency (C, Java, HTML/XML, Git workflows) with process improvements that reduced content footprint and localization costs across multiple organizations. A certified Maximo consultant and former lead information developer, she has a track record of stepping into legacy documentation challenges, consolidating large doc sets, and mentoring contributors. Notably, her open-source presence includes influencing GitHub defaults to add a "documentation" label to new repos since 2019, reflecting a passion for discoverable, maintainable docs.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., English and Psychology, B.A., English and Psychology at University of New Hampshirecertificate, Project Management, certificate, Project Management at Middlesex Community CollegePhillips Exeter Academy
Github Skills (78)
dashboard10
postgresql10
distributed-tracing10
grafana10
istio10
opentelemetry10
elasticsearch10
backend10
influxdb10
operator10
monitoring10
service-mesh10
jaegertracing10
management10
data-visualization10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openshift-istio/istio-docs
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Documentation covering the Istio MVP and associated boosters
Contributions:25 commits, 13 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 months
istio
JStickler/loki
Dec 2022 - Jun 2026
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Contributions:500 pushes, 175 branches in 3 years 6 months
prometheus
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