I specialize in untangling difficult problems and complicated ideas. I’m an experienced developer advocate, technical writer, solutions engineer, and coder with a focus on making complex systems accessible to more people. I have significant experience in the PaaS and developer tooling space, and I’m obsessed with understanding (and explaining) how complex systems interact. I’m highly proficient in Python, proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby, and conversational in Go and Rust. I bring strong linguistics instincts to engineering, which helps me design clear information architectures and reliable prompts for AI-assisted workflows. I've worked with Rails, React, Next.js, AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Git, and a variety of other tools. I view everything as an applied information-architecture problem and enjoy solving lots of interesting problems across tech, documentation, and developer tooling. My background in linguistics informs my approach to communication, prompts, and documentation: making complex concepts approachable for diverse audiences while remaining technically rigorous.

Nick Anderegg

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I specialize in untangling difficult problems and complicated ideas. I’m an experienced developer advocate, technical writer, solutions engineer, and coder with a focus on making complex systems accessible to more people. I have significant experience in the PaaS and developer tooling space, and I’m obsessed with understanding (and explaining) how complex systems interact. I’m highly proficient in Python, proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby, and conversational in Go and Rust. I bring strong linguistics instincts to engineering, which helps me design clear information architectures and reliable prompts for AI-assisted workflows. I've worked with Rails, React, Next.js, AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Git, and a variety of other tools. I view everything as an applied information-architecture problem and enjoy solving lots of interesting problems across tech, documentation, and developer tooling. My background in linguistics informs my approach to communication, prompts, and documentation: making complex concepts approachable for diverse audiences while remaining technically rigorous.

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I specialize in untangling difficult problems and complicated ideas. I’m an experienced developer advocate, technical writer, solutions engineer, and coder with a focus on making complex systems accessible to more people. I have significant experience in the PaaS and developer tooling space, and I’m obsessed with understanding (and explaining) how complex systems interact.

I’m highly proficient in Python, proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby, and conversational in Go and Rust. I bring strong linguistics instincts to engineering, which helps me design clear information architectures and reliable prompts for AI-assisted workflows. I’ve worked with Rails, React, Next.js, AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Git, and a variety of other tools.

I view everything as an applied information-architecture problem and enjoy solving lots of interesting problems across tech, documentation, and developer tooling. My background in linguistics informs my approach to communication, prompts, and documentation: making complex concepts approachable for diverse audiences while remaining technically rigorous.

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Work Experience

Solutions Engineer at CTO.ai
September 1, 2024 - Present
Contributed to internal and client cloud-native projects, analyzed and remediated security vulnerabilities in cloud application infrastructure, optimized relational database queries to remove bottlenecks, designed Kubernetes infrastructure to improve reliability while minimizing spend, supported CI/CD and IaC workflows, collaborated with cross-functional teams on AWS and DigitalOcean deployments, wrote and managed technical documentation, implemented application-level solutions to optimize infrastructure usage, and contributed to a large Rails upgrade project.
Developer Relations Lead at CTO.ai
May 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024
As a single-person DevRel, owned technical writing, content marketing, software development, product management, information architecture, linguistics, graphic design, and video editing. Led a comprehensive documentation overhaul, migrated docs to Hugo/GitHub Pages, customized the docs site theme with Tailwind, built a snippet system for reusable content blocks, and supported sales with demos and thought-leadership content; represented the company at industry events.
Developer Relations Consultant at Freelance
March 1, 2020 - May 31, 2023
Consulted with multiple companies to improve public-facing developer resources, including documentation, blog posts, and tutorials across industries such as industrial robotics, usage-based SaaS billing, IoT security, and Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Software Engineering at Freelance
March 1, 2020 - May 31, 2023
Python-based projects and DevOps work; collaborated with academics and researchers.
Developer Relations Consultant
September 1, 2022 - October 31, 2022
Gained exposure to Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and software supply chain integrity; produced an introductory guide to SBOMs and related regulatory topics.
Developer Advocate at Aptible
April 1, 2022 - July 31, 2022
Collaborated with customer reliability engineering and technical support to improve and expand developer documentation; published posts for the company blog; oversaw content produced by other teams; deepened knowledge of HIPAA and related regulatory regimes.
Developer Relations Consultant at Zymbit
January 1, 2021 - November 30, 2021
Launched a new website to centralize documentation and refreshed content; built a tool for generating parallel documentation for C, C++, and Python libraries and integrating it into the new site.
Developer Relations Engineer at Platform.sh
November 1, 2018 - February 28, 2020
Developed API documentation; built an open-source Python library for parsing and editing OpenAPI schemas; designed a CLI tool to add documentation to bare OpenAPI specs and to merge API schemas from multiple backend services behind a single API gateway; led API documentation strategy and demonstrated the platform with an iPad-based tech stack for presentations.
Technical Writer & Python Cloud Engineer at Platform.sh
July 1, 2018 - November 30, 2018
Wrote and managed API documentation for multiple backend services; developed tooling to generate documentation from API specs; contributed to documentation-driven onboarding and developer experience.
Technical Writer at Sourceress
July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018
Wrote highly-personalized outreach content, edited others’ writing for consistency, developed reusable pitches, and helped standardize the company’s content processes.
Graduate Researcher at Western University
September 1, 2015 - December 31, 2017
Developed Python algorithms for quantifying visual similarity of Chinese characters; built data processing pipelines; designed and executed reading experiments with PsychoPy; created Python packages to manage large corpora and Elasticsearch indexing.
Research Assistant at Center for Language Science, Penn State University
January 1, 2013 - July 31, 2015
Designed and conducted behavioral experiments; led data collection and analysis; presented work at PyCon Canada 2016; developed Python tooling for data processing and corpus analysis.
Technology Captain at Penn State Dance Marathon
April 1, 2013 - April 1, 2014
Led a technology overhaul for the internal information system used by thousands of volunteers; implemented a medication and medical information tracking system for the 46-hour fundraising event.

Education

Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Phil.) in Linguistics at Penn State University
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2015
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Penn State University
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2015
[Incomplete] Master's Degree in Cognitive Psychology (All But Thesis) at Western University
September 1, 2015 - December 31, 2017
Completed coursework and research, just did not finish my thesis!

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Education