Peter Matulis
Lead Technical Writer at Isovalent
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Matulis is a Lead Technical Writer with 11 years of experience crafting and operationalizing documentation for complex open source cloud and networking stacks, currently shaping docs and processes at Isovalent. He specializes in GNU/Linux, Kubernetes, Cilium, eBPF and networking observability, turning deep technical complexity into coherent, developer-integrated documentation practices. Peter embeds writers with engineering teams and trains engineers to be proactive documenters, reducing interruptions and improving feature accuracy across organizations of ~200 engineers. His background at Canonical spans OpenStack, Ceph, Juju and MAAS, where he both mentored new authors and directly improved user-facing CLI text and tests in projects like juju. He writes procedural specifications and delivers hands-on workshops, making documentation an auditable part of the software lifecycle rather than an afterthought. Based in Pointe-Claire, Canada, he pairs a teacher’s knack for mentorship with a practitioner’s fluency in cloud-native tooling.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Saint Mary's UniversityDiploma of Education, High School Teaching, Diploma of Education, High School Teaching at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (5)
command-line-interface10
go10
documentation10
command-line10
devops5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
juju/juju
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Orchestration engine that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure (Kubernetes or otherwise).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 13 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on improving the text and rephrasing documentation within the codebase, including modifying command help messages and examples. They also made changes to test files, suggesting they were involved in testing and refining the command-line interface functionality related to cloud configuration. These contributions appear to be focused on refining the user-facing aspects of the system, by improving documentation and testing capabilities.
kubernetesjujugolangdevopscontainers
openstack/charm-guide
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
OpenStack Charms development and usage documentation. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Contributions:188 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 6 months
openstack
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