Brad Fidler

brfid@icloud.com linkedin.com/in/brfid/

Principal Technical Writer | Documentation Engineering

Seattle, Washington

Summary

I run technical documentation at a cybersecurity company. Previously, I wrote lessons-learned analyses of distributed systems and taught technology history.

Experience

DomainTools

· Seattle, WA, US
Oct 2023 - Present

Principal Technical Writer

Jul 2026 - Present

Set documentation priorities with product and engineering teams. Plan quarterly work, provide technical direction to another writer, and serve as final editor for the site.

Senior Technical Writer

Jan 2025 - Jun 2026

Maintained product documentation and OpenAPI specifications. Integrated documentation into product releases and improved publishing tools to allow direct SME contributions. Contributed to AI product testing.

Technical Writer

Oct 2023 - Dec 2024

Set up docs.domaintools.com, migrated the existing documentation, and established writing standards and a contribution process.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

· Jersey City (Hybrid), NJ, US
Apr 2023 - Oct 2023

Contract Technical Writer

Ran a documentation hub for cloud migration. Wrote migration and configuration-management policy that passed external audit.

Romeo Power, Inc.

· Los Angeles (Remote), CA, US
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023

Technical Writer (Document Control Analyst II)

Documented Git workflows and release processes for a software process assessment.

Stevens Institute of Technology

· Hoboken (Hybrid), NJ, US
Aug 2017 - Jun 2022

Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies

Taught computing, networking, and policy, and ran research and consulting projects for NSF and the aerospace industry.

UCLA Computer Science

· Los Angeles (Hybrid), CA, US
Sep 2012 - Jul 2016

Assistant Researcher

Contributed to a DARPA study of how research teams and institutions shaped early Internet architecture.

Skills

Documentation leadership and developer experience

Documentation strategy · Quarterly planning · Information architecture · Editorial standards · Contributor workflows

Documentation engineering

Docs-as-code · Publishing automation · CI/CD · Git · Python (pytest) · Contributor plugin development (Codex, Claude Code)

API documentation and validation

API documentation · OpenAPI specifications · REST APIs · API contract testing · Contract validation · Schemathesis

AI tooling and evaluation

Agent instructions and evaluation · MCP tool and resource definitions · LLM interaction testing

Education

UCLA

PhD, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

York University

Master of Arts, Political Science

Selected work

https://brfid.github.io/work/