Summary
Phil Stollery is a Lead Technical Writer with 8 years in documentation-focused roles and over 25 years of hands-on IT and development experience, currently shaping developer-facing docs for a Kubernetes-based private cloud at 50Hertz. He blends "documentation as code" practices—Markdown, Git, GitLab CI/CD, and MkDocs—with an agile, team-driven approach that has teams authoring the majority of initial content. Previously a Principal Technologist at Civica/Content Master, he has written Microsoft training materials and contributed to SQL Server learning resources, bringing deep technical credibility and classroom-style clarity. Phil runs a contracting company, publishes consumer apps on iOS and Android, and volunteers teaching SQL to undergraduates, showing a mix of entrepreneurship and community commitment. Ambidextrous and equally at home on macOS/iOS for personal projects and Microsoft stacks at work, he bridges developer tooling and user-focused documentation. Practical, collaborative, and technically fluent, he aims to make complex systems approachable for engineers and customers alike.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Aston University