I have been a freelancer and contractor in the past, so attempting to summarise my work experience and history is challenging.

Below are chronologically the most recent and relevant projects I have worked on, I can supply more details on request.

Accomplishments

Long-form (technical) writing

Courses

Presentations

Over the past 4-5 years, I have spoken at over 100 events on a wide variety of subjects. Find more on my website.

Podcasts and Video

Find links to all these at chrischinchilla.com.

Open Source

I have always been active in open-source communities, maintaining several widely used tools and contributing documentation suggestions to many projects. See my GitHub profile for more.

Community

Work Experience

Freelance Technical Writer, Blogger, and Developer Relations

March 2017 - Present

When not working full time, I work as a freelance writer and blogger, I have contributed to the blogs and documentation sets of technical companies, ranging from small cutting-edge startups to large enterprises.

Current clients and work include:

Past clients and work include:

Docker, Staff Technical Writer

February 2023 - August 2023 Docker Inc. is a major contributor to many container-related technologies and its own commercial offerings. I was a staff technical writer on the documentation team and was attached to working on several commercial products. My responsibilities included:

Chronosphere, Senior Technical Writer

August 2020 - September 2022

Chronosphere is the steward for M3, the highly available time series database, and its commercial offering. I was the sole tech writer for both projects, and my role included:

Ethereum Foundation, Technical Writer

August 2018 - August 2020

I worked as the sole tech writer for the Ethereum Foundation and its projects. My role included:

Event Store, Technical Writer

March 2017 - March 2020

Event Store creates an open-source events-optimised database with commercial-only features and support. My role included:

Kauri (ConsenSys), Technical Content Lead

October 2018 - March 2020

Kauri was a content management system and platform built on Ethereum technologies. We lost funding from our parent company (ConsenSys) in March 2020. My role was to do the following:

Contentful, Technical Writer

Sep 2016 - March 2017

As the lone technical writer for Contentful, an API-based CMS, I wrote and edited all developer documentation. I managed the documentation infrastructure, information architecture, and analytics. I liaised with the engineering, marketing, and support teams to determine priorities and problems that needed addressing in the documentation.

Crate.IO, Developer Advocate

Feb 2015 - Aug 2016

I was a Developer advocate for this open-source, highly scalable database startup. Responsible for Europe, my tasks include handling support, organising events and presentations, networking, creating content, documentation and sample applications, partnerships, social media, and much more.

SitePoint Mobile Channel Editor

March 2014 - Aug 2016

In this part-time role, I was responsible for the SitePoint mobile channel. SitePoint is a global resource site for Developers and Designers that ranks highly on Alexis and has weekly traffic of about 1.5 million page views. My role involved commissioning and editing articles, engaging our community, and creating a strategy based on trends in our readership. As part of editing articles, I had to understand, test, and streamline code in a variety of languages, such as Swift, Java, and JavaScript.

Older work

Summarised for brevity.