Hey! I am Roopesh and welcome to my website.
I am a technical writer.
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.— Ernest Gaines
Hey! I am Roopesh and welcome to my website.
I am a technical writer.
I am a highly resourceful, innovative, and self-motivated technical writer passionate about writing and programming.
I have over 7 years of experience designing, writing, and editing technical documentation and developing learning assets, such as tutorials and videos.
Also, I have created scripts to automate some boring stuff and have developed web applications.
Senior Technical Writer at Conviva
(September 2020 to April 2022)
Published technical documentation for the content and learning team.
Worked in a fast-paced agile environment to create SDK documentation, installation and configuration guides, application user guides, how-to guides, quick guides, API user guides and reference documentation, release notes, FAQ, and videos for developers.
Contributed significantly to the creation of a new documentation portal for the organization.
Collaborated with internal stakeholders to document new features and develop learning assets for analytics-based products.
Learned complex technologies to enhance technical documentation and improve customer engagement.
Conducted peer reviews to improve the quality of new and existing technical documentation assets.
Senior User Assistance Developer at Oracle
(June 2016 to September 2020)
Lead publisher for the core database documentation team.
Worked in fast-paced agile and waterfall environments to document new features for core database products.
Created API user guides, API reference documentation, and videos for core database products.
Subject Matter Expert (SME) for several technical documentation and learning assets.
Collaborated with internal stakeholders to document new features and develop learning assets for core database products.
Created and tested code examples for the assigned focus areas in core database products.
Developed Oracle Application Express applications for internal teams and customers.
Developed Python and PL/SQL scripts for automating tasks and processing data.
Learned complex technologies to enhance technical documentation and learning assets.
Mentored new hires for the core database documentation team.
Programmer Analyst (Technical Writer) at Cognizant Technology Solutions
(March 2015 to June
2016)
Led a small team of technical writers in a fast-paced agile environment.
Created user guides, administrator guides, runbooks, and API documentation for clients across domains.
Collaborated with internal stakeholders to write and update documentation.
Created Architecture diagrams of critical applications for a banking and financial services client.
Collaborated with Business Analysts for task analysis and estimations.
Associate Software Trainee at Ticketgoose
(May 2014 to March 2015)
Developed new features using Java for sprint releases in a fast-paced agile environment.
Modified existing code to fix errors and improve performance.
Integrated code using API documents.
Writing Samples
Web Applications
I am a technical writer who explored writing after a short stint in web development. Back in 2014, I was fortunate enough to discover the world of technical communication when I was exposed to API documentation as a web developer. As I was passionate about writing, I learned the tools of the trade for technical writing and became a technical writer in 2015 at Cognizant. In 2016, I was offered the chance to work for Oracle, so I moved away from my hometown. For a little over 4 years, I gathered much-needed experience and rose from a junior technical writer to a senior technical writer. In 2020, I was offered an excellent chance to be involved significantly in creating a brand-new documentation portal at Conviva, so I moved from Oracle to Conviva. In 2022, I ... (That is a story for another time as it is long but wonderful.)
With a positive outlook on everything, I love sharing my knowledge with others enthusiastically. I am dutiful and sincere about my tasks with a keen eye for observation. I love to plan my tasks ahead and am known by my peers as someone who always tries something new and different with my work.
I am constantly learning how to make life better for end-users during my free time, and I code and design as a hobby to hone my problem-solving skills. Also, I edit my family's travel blog whenever I can. I travel a lot during the weekends and I have a hyperactive puppy, so he keeps me busy the rest of the time.
If you would like to reach out to me, feel free to send me an email.