Kim Nylander
Technical Writer at Grafana
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarKim Nylander is a senior/principal technical writer with 15+ years of experience turning complex SaaS, API, and infrastructure topics into clear, audience-appropriate documentation. At Grafana Labs she maintains docs-as-code for open-source projects like Pyroscope and Tempo and for Grafana Cloud features, working closely with engineers, PMs, field engineering, and support to ensure documentation answers real customer needs. She excels in information architecture, content inventories, and documentation platform selection, and has a track record of single-sourcing large documentation sets and establishing writing processes across teams. Kim combines deep technical familiarity (OpenStack, Linux, APIs, profiling/tracing tooling) with mentoring and cross-functional collaboration to ship timely, usable docs. Outside tech, her background in creative and scholarly writing—including interests in archaeology and ancient Rome—feeds a clear, user-focused voice that makes intricate systems approachable.
3 years of coding experience
Github Skills (71)
dashboard10
slack-bot10
python10
distributed-tracing10
postgres10
cloudnative10
grafana10
grafana-plugin10
opentelemetry-collector10
prometheus-exporter10
ruby10
performance-testing10
perf10
profiling10
opentelemetry10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
knylander-grafana/tempo-doc-work
Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
Grafana Tempo is a high volume, minimal dependency distributed tracing backend.
Contributions:175 pushes, 43 branches in 7 months
knylander-grafana/pyroscope-doc-work
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
Contributions:167 pushes, 50 branches in 1 year 2 months
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